With various figurative objects (as venom, poison, fire, etc.) denoting the utterance or expression of malice, hatred, anger, or other violent…

Of people or animals. intransitive. To show signs of insanity; to rave in madness or fury; to speak or act furiously. Also: to have frenzied or…

To utter loud or noisy breath, to bluster. To fume, storm, speak angrily (chiefly colloquial).

intransitive. Of persons: To storm or rage boisterously; to talk with inflated violence; to utter loud empty menaces or protests, to hector, play the…

intransitive. To complain with rough and violent language; to rage. Const. at, against (a grievance or person).

intransitive. To throw out abuse; to show signs of anger, to fume. Also transitive with it. Cf. pelt, n.2 2, and see also pelting, adj.2 1. Obsolete.

intransitive. †To rant and bluster as a roisterer (obsolete); †to vociferate (obsolete); to ‘go on’ violently, to rave in anger or excitement, to…

To ‘go on’ impetuously, rage, rail (against). Obsolete. Cf. fare, n.1 6c.

figurative. to speakor look daggers: to speak so as to wound, to speak or look fiercely, savagely, or angrily.

to blow hot coals: to rage fiercely. Obsolete.

intransitive. To speak furiously; to storm or rage violently. Frequently with at, against. In later use passing into sense 1e.

figurative. To express oneself angrily, excitedly, etc., in speech or writing.

intransitive. U.S. colloquial. to pop off: to speak hastily or angrily; to complain loudly; to lose one's temper. Cf. to go off pop at pop, adv. 3.

intransitive. Originally U.S. To indulge in behaviour regarded as inappropriate or unacceptable; esp. (colloquial) to speak or behave in an…