'Raging' definitions:
Definition of 'raging'
From: WordNet
adjective
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging torrent" [syn: hot, raging]
adjective
Very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
adjective
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]
Definition of 'Raging'
From: GCIDE
- Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged (r[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Raging (r[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.]
- 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted Even to falling. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Rage, rage against the dying of the light Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan Thomas. [PJC]
- 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. [1913 Webster]
- Why do the heathen rage? --Ps. ii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Raging'
From: GCIDE
- Raging \Ra"ging\ (r[=a]"j[i^]ng), a. & n. from Rage, v. i. -- {Ra"ging*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'raging'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- amok,
- anarchic,
- angry,
- bacchic,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- boisterous,
- bullying,
- carried away,
- chaotic,
- cloudy,
- coarse,
- corybantic,
- cyclonic,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- desperate,
- Dionysiac,
- dirty,
- distracted,
- ecstatic,
- enraged,
- enraptured,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting mad,
- foul,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fulminating,
- fuming,
- furious,
- haggard,
- hectoring,
- hellish,
- hog-wild,
- hopping mad,
- howling,
- hysterical,
- in a rage,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- insensate,
- intoxicated,
- like one possessed,
- mad,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- mindless,
- noisy,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- orgiastic,
- pandemoniac,
- possessed,
- rabid,
- rainy,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- ravening,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- rip-roaring,
- roaring,
- roaring mad,
- roistering,
- roisterous,
- rollicking,
- rough,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- savage,
- stark-raving mad,
- storming,
- stormy,
- swaggering,
- swashbuckling,
- swashing,
- tempestuous,
- tornadic,
- transported,
- troublous,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- typhonic,
- typhoonish,
- uncontrollable,
- uproarious,
- violent,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking