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raging
adjective
1 raging
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense:
— A raging battle.
— The river became a raging torrent.
synonym: hot.
2 raging
3 raging
of the elements As if showing violent anger:
— The raging sea.
synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild.
Roget 173:
violent,
vehement;
warm;
acute,
sharp;
rough,
rude,
ungentle,
bluff,
boisterous,
wild;
brusque,
abrupt,
waspish;
impetuous;
rampant.
turbulent;
disorderly;
blustering,
raging
etc.
v.;
troublous†,
riotous;
tumultuary†,
tumultuous;
obstreperous,
uproarious;
extravagant;
unmitigated;
ravening,
inextinguishable,
tameless;
frenzied
etc.
(insane)
503.
desperate
etc.
(rash)
863;
infuriate,
furious,
outrageous,
frantic,
hysteric,
in hysterics.
fiery,
flaming,
scorching,
hot,
red-hot,
ebullient.
savage,
fierce,
ferocious,
fierce as a tiger.
excited
etc.
v.;
unquelled†,
unquenched,
unextinguished†,
unrepressed,
unbridled,
unruly;
headstrong,
ungovernable,
unappeasable,
immitigable,
unmitigable†;
uncontrollable,
incontrollable†;
insuppressible,
irrepressible;
orgastic,
orgasmatic,
orgasmic.
spasmodic,
convulsive,
explosive;
detonating
etc.
v.;
volcanic,
meteoric;
stormy
etc.
(wind)
349.
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Roget 824:
excited
etc.
v.;
wrought up,
up the qui vive [Fr.],
astir,
sparkling;
in a quiver
etc.
821,
in a fever,
in a ferment,
in a blaze,
in a state of excitement;
in hysterics;
black in the face,
overwrought,
tense,
taught,
on a razor's edge;
hot,
red-hot,
flushed,
feverish;
all of a twitter,
in a pucker;
with quivering lips,
with tears in one's eyes.
flaming;
boiling over;
ebullient,
seething;
foaming at the mouth;
fuming,
raging,
carried away by passion,
wild,
raving,
frantic,
mad,
distracted,
beside oneself,
out of one's wits,
ready to burst,
bouleverse†,
demoniacal.
lost,
eperdu [Fr.],
tempest-tossed;
haggard;
ready to sink.
stung to the quick,
up,
on one's high ropes.
exciting,
absorbing,
riveting,
distracting
etc.
v.;
impressive,
warm,
glowing,
fervid,
swelling,
imposing,
spirit-stirring,
thrilling;
high-wrought;
soul-stirring,
soul-subduing;
heart-stirring,
heart-swelling,
heart-thrilling;
agonizing
etc.
(painful)
830;
telling,
sensational,
hysterical;
overpowering,
overwhelming;
more than flesh and blood can bear;
yellow.
piquant
etc.
(pungent)
392;
spicy,
appetizing,
provocative,
provoquant†,
tantalizing.
eager to go,
anxious to go,
chafing at the bit.
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Roget 900:
angry,
wrath,
irate;
ireful,
wrathful;
cross
etc.
(irascible)
901;
Achillean†;
sulky,
etc.
901.1;
bitter,
virulent;
acrimonious
etc.
(discourteous)
etc.
895;
violent
etc.
173.
warm,
burning;
boiling,
boiling over;
fuming,
raging;
foaming,
foaming at the mouth;
convulsed with rage.
offended
etc.
v.;
waxy,
acharne;
wrought,
worked up;
indignant,
hurt,
sore;
set against.
fierce,
wild,
rageful†,
furious,
mad with rage,
fiery,
infuriate,
rabid,
savage;
relentless
etc.
919.
flushed with anger,
flushed with rage;
in a huff,
in a stew,
in a fume,
in a pucker,
in a passion,
in a rage,
in a fury,
in a taking,
in a way;
on one's high ropes,
up in arms;
in high dudgeon.
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Moby thesaurus: Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying, carried away, chaotic, cloudy, coarse, corybantic, cyclonic, delirious, demoniac, desperate, 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 ... show more.
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