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Xem thêm: fury, madness, passion, fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, ramp, storm
rage noun
1 great anger
ADJ. blind, cold, icy, pure | helpless, impotent burning with impotent rage | pent-up, suppressed
QUANT. fit, burst He punched the wall in a fit of rage.
VERB + RAGE be beside yourself with, be boiling/burning with, be choked with, be filled with, be full of, be purple/red/white with, be rigid/stiff with, be shaking/trembling with, feel, seethe with He glared at me, quite beside himself with rage. ‘How dare you!’ she said, her voice choked with rage. | vent The people vented their rage on government buildings. | control, master He managed to master his rage.
RAGE + VERB build up She felt the rage building up inside her. | erupt His rage suddenly erupted. | subside His rage was beginning to subside.
PREP. with ~ She was speechless with rage. | ~ at boiling with rage at the unfairness of it all
PHRASES a bellow/cry/roar/shout of rage He gave a roar of rage and punched me in the face. | tears of rage
2 sudden display of great anger
ADJ. blind, terrible, towering | jealous | drunken She smashed up his car in a drunken rage.
VERB + RAGE be in, fly into, get in If something's too difficult she gets in a rage.
PREP. in a ~ She killed him in a rage of despair. | ~ about He was in a towering rage about his lost watch. | ~ at He flew into a rage at the insult. | ~ of He left in a rage of humiliation.
n.
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
his face turned red with rage
she fell into a rage and refused to answer
his rage for fame destroyed him
the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks
he always follows the latest fads
it was all the rage that season