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What does "rage" mean?

Rage: Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. 3.The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage. See Anger.
  3. 4.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.
  4. 5.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.
  5. 6.The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. Milton.
  6. 7.To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
  7. 8.To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  8. 9.To enrage. [Obs.] Shak.

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