ragingn.
/ˈreɪdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈreɪdʒɪŋ/ The action of rage v. (in various senses); an instance of this.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] > raging with violent emotion
ragingc1300
the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun]
foamc900
wrethec950
woodnessc1000
eyec1175
wrathc1175
grim13..
ragingc1300
ragec1325
furyc1374
fiercetya1382
fiercenessc1384
wrotha1400
grindellaikc1400
rasedheadc1450
furor1477
windc1485
furiousnessc1500
enrage1502
furiosity1509
passion1524
ourningc1540
enragement1596
enragedness1611
transportation1617
emportment1663
madness1663
foaming1709
infuriation1848
the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] > action of raging in fury
ragingc1300
ramping1656
the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > angry speech > action of speaking angrily
ragingc1300
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head
headwarkeOE
headacheOE
headachinga1400
sodac1540
sood1547
a sore (Sc. sair) headc1550
raging1561
cephalalgy1607
head1783
splitter1860
headachiness1862
c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) 12 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 240 (MED) He nolde speke non ydel word ase swuche children doth; Leiȝingue and pleiȝes and ragingues [CmbAdd rageynge] he bi-lefte al-so.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 1673 (MED) Forþer a herde in a stable Pages fele..Ase þai sete in here ragin.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 9714 (MED) Ragyng wyl reyse korage.
?a1425 Constit. Masonry (Royal 17 A.i) l. 768 in J. O. Halliwell Early Hist. Freemasonry in Eng. (1844) 40 Ny make no ragynge with rybody.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 394 In hys ragynge he toke no kepe of this greve wounde.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. xvi. 32 The gret rageyng [Small, Ruddiman rageing] of liones and the beir.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 21 Thys alayeth the heate and ragynge of the heade.
1579 T. Rogers tr. J. Habermann Enimie of Securitie 127 Let not their rushings, ragings, and misrule disquiet vs.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xiii. 161 The tempests and raging of the sea.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes i. §66. 110 Let not..the present raging of this plague too much daunt us.
1696 C. Trotter Agnes de Castro ii. sig. C In the tender ragings of my Heart, Torn with the Agonies of hopeless Love, I shall remember, you are wretched too.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 247 I could with less Pain endure the raging of my own natural unsatisfied Appetites, even Hunger or Thirst, than [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. iv. 74 The joining together two such grand objects, as the ragings of the waters, and the tumults of the people..produces a noble effect.
1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xx. 216 The travellers hear The raging of the flood.
1892 I. Zangwill Big Bow Myst. 137 His most ungentlemanly raging and raving.
1919 H. E. Krehbiel More Chapters of Opera iii. 55 Verdi cared little for the raging of the youthful elements about him.
1991 Notes 48 294/2 The younger composer's response to the ragings of the poem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
ragingadj.adv.
/ˈreɪdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈreɪdʒɪŋ/ A. adj.
1. Of a person or animal: raving in madness or fury, acting violently. Also: (of a natural force, a passion, etc.) violent, intense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion
woodc900
reighOE
mada1350
furiousc1374
raginga1425
savagea1450
rageous1486
frenetic?c1550
frantic1561
frenetical1588
impotent1596
transported1600
violent1601
turbulent1609
dementing1729
enfrenzied1823
wild1868
haywire1934
wigged-out1977
the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry
grim971
aweddeOE
woodlyc1000
anburstc1275
woodc1275
aburstc1300
eagerc1325
brotheful1330
brothely1330
furiousc1374
wroth as (the) wind1377
throc1380
fella1382
wrothlya1400
grindelc1400
raginga1425
furibund1490
bremit1535
outraging1567
fulminant?1578
wood-like1578
horn-mad1579
snuff1582
woodful1582
maddeda1586
rageful1585
furibundal1593
gary1609
fierce1611
wild1653
infuriate1667
hopping mad1675
maddened1735
sulphureous1751
savage1789
infuriated1796
bouncing mad1834
frenzy1859
furyinga1861
ropeable1870
furied1878
fulminous1886
livid1888
fit to be tied1894
hopping1894
fighting mad1896
tamping mad1946
up the wall1951
ravers1967
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > fiercely or furiously violent > causing
raginga1425
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] > violent or tumultuous
woodc1100
wilda1250
stormya1340
tempestousc1374
tempestuous1447
raging1535
combustious1593
blustering1595
combustuous1611
tumultuous1667
tempestive1848
the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > intensified
enrageda1586
raging1591
roiled1611
extended1699
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 54v Rabidus, ragynge.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 298 Ragynge, rabians, rabidus.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. xiv. 1 Beginnynge to take his iourney thorow ye raginge see.
1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 322 The regeand tirrant that in the rang, Herod, is exilit.
1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 374 Those bitter stounds Of raging love.
a1658 J. Durham Law Unsealed (1676) 276 A sort of raging unsetledness in the thought.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse v. 100 Behold this raging Lyon at your Feet.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 31 'Tis raging Noon; and, vertical, the Sun Shoots..a torrid Gleam.
1790 W. Blake Marriage Heaven & Hell Pl. 18 We saw his mouth & red gills hang just above the raging foam.
1841 L. H. Sigourney Pocahontas 161 Thy manly arm no more My dearest prop must be, Nor thy strong counsel nerve my soul To brave the raging sea.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxx. 523 Beyond the reach of all the raging storms.
1906 J. London White Fang iii. ii. 135 White Fang, transformed into a raging demon, was only finally driven off by a fusillade of stones.
1990 News of World 8 Apr. 4 The..car ferry was a raging inferno... Passengers rushed..to escape flames.
2. Of a disease or pain: violent.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > violent or severe
grimc900
strongeOE
grievousc1290
burning1393
acutea1398
maliciousa1398
peracutea1398
sorea1400
wicked14..
malign?a1425
vehement?a1425
malignousc1475
angrya1500
cacoethe?1541
eager?1543
virulent1563
malignant1568
raging1590
roaring1590
furious1597
grassant1601
hearty1601
sharp1607
main1627
generous1632
perperacute1647
serious1655
ferine1666
bad1705
severe1725
unfavourable1782
grave1888
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 17 These raging diseases.
1633 G. Herbert Dooms-day in Temple ii Peculiar notes and strains Cure Tarantulaes raging pains.
1695 W. W. Novum Lumen Chirurgicum Extinctum 58 Brought the Gentleman into a raging Fever.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. i. 49 The Power of Words, and soothing Sounds appease The raging Pain.
1769 Rational Lovers II. vi. 169 Complaining..of a raging head-ach.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxiii. 156 Mr. Richard..was stricken with a raging fever.
1862 L. M. Alcott Let. in E. D. Cheney L. M. Alcott (1889) vi. 134 The baby fascinated me so that I forgot a raging headache.
1935 Modesto (Calif.) Bee & News-Herald 25 Oct. 1/3 A raging temperature of 107 degrees loosened his lips.
1988 M. Binchy Silver Wedding iv. 89 Marigold came in saying she had a raging hangover.
3. Of a tooth: aching furiously.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [adjective] > in teeth
astoniedc1350
anedged1562
raginga1616
odontalgic1703
toothachy1838
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 419 Being troubled with a raging tooth, I could not sleep. View more context for this quotation
1777 J. Leake Med. Instr. Dis. Women iii. x. 262 No one can think or study with the same attention, when..tormented with a raging tooth.
1876 Appleton's Jrnl. 8 Apr. 458/2 Going to the dentist's and getting a raging tooth drawn.
1943 G. G. Coulton Fourscore Years (1944) ix. 75 I found myself alone on that same bench, with three or four sovereigns in my pocket and a raging tooth in my head.
2006 Africa News (Nexis) 15 Feb. And knowing Chris, who has an ego like a raging tooth, it is over.
4. colloquial. Highly successful. Also as an intensifier: enormous; utter, absolute.Recorded earliest in 1886 for raging favourite n. at Compounds.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [adjective] > exceptionally
raging1889
socko1939
gangbuster1959
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme
strangec1380
overpassinga1382
passinga1387
most?c1430
extremec1460
horriblea1464
violenta1500
mainc1540
immortal?c1550
exquisite1552
sore1555
three-piled1598
thundering1618
devilish1639
shrewda1643
deadly1660
woundy1681
vast1696
monstrous1711
mortal1716
terrific1743
hell-fired1754
hellish1764
colossal1794
severe1805
awful1818
all-fired1829
terrible1829
quare and1847
ferocious1877
pluperfect1889
raging1889
giddy1896
utter1898
stiff1905
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxi. 398 He..was doing a raging business.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Mar. 400/2 A raging lot of sand.
1911 Windsor Mag. Aug. 261/2 ‘He's a raging blight!’ ‘Not a bit of it,’ said Stalky cheerfully.
1980 T. Wynne-Jones Odd's End xiii. 100 People gradually realize you're not a raging queen who is going to molest their children.
1994 Independent on Sunday 4 Sept. (Review Suppl.) 42/4 I told all sorts of untruths during our first couple of encounters—not great raging porky pies—just colourful fiblets.
B. adv.
Ragingly. Modifying adjectives, as raging drunk, raging hot, raging mad.
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1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Expos. Abdyas Pref. 8 Summer is raging hoate.
1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) x. sig. LLv Great brawles, & raging mad vprores, what is the cause or why?
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xix. 144 If they can get any drink that will make them mad drunk..they never leave off, untill they bee mad and raging drunke.
1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 47 Others [bear] the Raging Hot Fire.
1701 A. J. Compl. Acct. Portugueze Lang. Furioso, Void of wit or sence, or raging mad.
1744 E. Boyd Altamira’s Ghost 8 Now raging hot as Passion burns.
1777 tr. Juvenal Satires 33 But July is raging hot, I burn.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II lxxix. 158 They..Went raging mad..And, with hyæna laughter, died despairing.
1871 E. J. Goodspeed Hist. Great Fires Chicago & West xx. 152 The lower orders were raging drunk, while the respectable people were wholly demoralized.
1934 P. Lynch Turf-cutter's Donkey xiv. 122 He hasn't been in these parts for years, and he's ragin' mad.
1938 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 24 June 6/7 He was blind, raging drunk and had threatened to kill Mrs. Sudbrink.
1996 Independent 15 Jan. 8/7 The men's first reaction, as the Russian army massed in their fields, was to get raging drunk.
2006 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 20 Dec. 92 Marasco was posted the raging hot favourite in the Scahill.
Compounds
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > aubergine
mad-apple1578
rage apple1578
raging apple1578
raging love apple1578
verangene1587
brinjal1611
brown jolly1756
melinzane1775
melongena1785
melongene1793
aubergine1796
vegetable egg1797
egg-fruit1811
Jew's apple1838
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxxv. 439 They be called..Raging or mad Apples.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. liv. 273 Raging Apples hath a rounde stalke of two foote high, diuided into sundry braunches, set with broade leaues..not vnlike the leaues of white Henbane.
1756 J. Hill Brit. Herbal 327/2 Bauhine calls it Solanum pomiferum fructu oblongo... Our English people, who follow the old botanists, Mad apples, and Raging apples. Others, the Egg-plant.
raging favourite n. colloquial a strongly fancied favourite in a race or contest.
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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > favourite
favourite1813
raging favourite1886
co-favourite1922
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 151/2 A raging favourite.
1977 Hongkong Standard 12 Apr. 12/2 Raging favourite Orange Peel was pushed to the limit by Glynn Parry.
2007 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Jan. 91 Melbourne will go in as raging favourites but from our perspective we've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
ΚΠ
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxxv. 438 There be two kindes of Amorus or Raging loue apples [Fr. deux sortes de Verangenes].
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun]
morela1400
nightshadea1400
petty morel?a1425
hound's-berryc1485
micklewort1531
manicon1543
garden nightshade1576
dulcamara1578
mad nightshade1578
raging nightshade1578
sleeping nightshade1578
solanum1578
tree nightshade1597
black nightshade1607
moonshade1626
mumme tree1629
winter cherry1629
blue bindweeda1637
canker berry1651
shrub-nightshade1666
poison berry1672
nightshade1733
woody nightshade1796
Sodom apple1808
African nightshade1839
solanal1846
felon-wood1861
shoo-fly plant1949
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xcii. 447 The other [kind] is called Solanum Manicum, that is to say, Mad, or Raging Nightshade [Fr. L'autre Solanum appellé Manicum, c'est à dire Furieux].
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. li. 270 It is called..of the Latines, Solanum somniferum, or sleeping Nightshade; and Solanum læthale, or deadly Nightshade; and Solanum manicum, raging Nightshade.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun]
brathc1175
reighshipc1275
airc1300
ragec1330
sturdinessc1384
violencea1387
fierceness1435
vehemencyc1487
furiosity1509
fiercetya1513
bremeness?1529
boistousness1530
vehemence1535
bruteness1538
violency1538
violentness1544
vehementness1561
wrath1579
fury1585
torture1605
keenness?1606
ragingness1621
stiffness1623
rapt1632
tempestuousness1648
boisterousnessa1650
rampancy1652
boisture1667
untamedness1727
paroxysm1893
storminess1894
1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. ii. xviii. 132 The ragingnesse [L. de ferocitate, Fr. la fureur] of the dogs upon the poore and naked, and vnarmed Indians.
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