RAGE

Definitions

1. 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged." Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. Shak.
2. 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. Milton.
3. 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
4. 4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.