violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.-especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.-a violent or raging wind.-the subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.-to be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.-to be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.-to ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in cairo.-to toy or act wantonly; to sport.-to enrage.