word-vault/dist/data/cards/ra/rage.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "rage",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a feeling of violent anger that is difficult to control",
            "sensetop": "in a rage",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His face was dark with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to be shaking/trembling/speechless with rage"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sue stormed out of the room in a rage.",
                    "contextForm": "in a rage"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **flies into a rage** if you even mention the subject."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘How dare you!’ she said, her voice choked with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Blind rage consumed him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gave a roar of rage and punched me in the face."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She glared at me, quite beside herself with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He left in a rage of humiliation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She managed to master her rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He punched the wall in a fit of rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was boiling with rage at the unfairness of it all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was in a towering rage about his lost watch."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was literally shaking with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His eyes were burning with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her rage boiled over as she burst into tears."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His voice was trembling with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My answer only seemed to fuel her rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His rage suddenly erupted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her rage was beginning to subside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was seething with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If something's too difficult he gets in a rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She smashed up his car in a drunken rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was burning with impotent rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The people vented their rage on government buildings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was prone to violent rages."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["blind", "terrible", "towering"],
                "verb + rage": ["be in", "fly into", "get in"],
                "preposition": ["in a rage", "rage about", "rage at"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "anger and violent behaviour caused by a particular situation",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a case of trolley rage in the supermarket"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very popular and fashionable",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was 1711 and Italian opera was all the rage."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/reɪdʒ/",
                "audio": "ra/rage/rage__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/reɪdʒ/",
                "audio": "ra/rage/rage__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘madness’): from Old French rage (noun), rager (verb), from a variant of Latin rabies, from rabere ‘rave’."
}