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Definition of rabid in English: rabidadjective ˈrabɪdˈreɪbɪd 1Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something. the show's small but rabid fan base she's expecting more rabid support from the home fans Example sentencesExamples - For as long as anyone can remember, Indonesian supporters have been infamous, rabid in their encouragement of winners and cruel in their criticism of the vanquished.
- Really, the rabid support for gun ownership stateside comes from an ideal that the people should be able to, if necessary, mount an armed resistance to a tyrannical and corrupt government for the purposes of revolution.
- There's a small, but rabid group of fanatical followers.
- On the night of 14 April, as he sat with his wife at Ford's Theatre in Washington, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and rabid Confederate supporter.
- Over the course of the years most of my rabid political beliefs have been tempered somewhat by increasing understanding of the situation.
- A certain portion of these teachers are incompetents and frauds; some are rabid patriots and fundamentalists - and some are ham-fisted leftists.
- One of the biggest forces in the underground scene right now is what's called extreme music, and it's got a rabid fanbase.
- In the process, he has been hailed as a prescient genius and dismissed as a rabid extremist, but almost always recognised as a novelist of great power and originality.
- I am not a rabid republican but a middle-of-the-road Irish person who is proud of her Irish history and does not like to see it rewritten by anti-Irish journalists with a unionist agenda offensive to ordinary Irish people.
- Many rabid political partisans are so thin-skinned that any unfavorable truth about their heroes muddles their thinking.
- Plus, it's worth remembering that while convention-goers may be rabid partisans, the folks at home tend to be in the middle.
- Televised sports events now evoke maniacal, raucous, rabid and even aggressive sentiments against rival nations or neighbours.
- The governor's repeated claim that he will raise the issue of capital punishment during the 2004 session may be no more than a bone tossed to his more rabid supporters.
- In some instances, such as the eugenic movement, rabid prejudice against so-called racial inferiors combined with a belief in human progress.
- He was a rabid snob and a squirming snake-pit of prejudice, without even the intelligence to realise that other people were as human as himself.
- It is to do with culture, they argue, and to keep indigenous populations from feeling ‘swamped’ and thus prey to rabid extremists.
- There're idiots and rabid fanatics on both sides.
- Rutgers fans speak with envy of Midwest football schools such as Nebraska, where the fan support is rabid and the local kids stick around.
Synonyms extreme, fanatical, overzealous, over-enthusiastic, extremist, violent, maniacal, wild, passionate, fervent, diehard, uncompromising 2(of an animal) affected with rabies. her mother was bitten by a rabid dog Example sentencesExamples - A person who is bitten by a rabid animal but given treatment with rabies vaccines can expect not to develop rabies.
- Outside the United States, exposure to rabid dogs is the most common cause of transmission to humans.
- He went on to develop a rabies vaccine that was made from the spinal cords of rabid rabbits.
- ‘My Indian idyll came to an end four years after Independence because of a panther and a rabid dog,’ she wrote years later.
- There is death and destruction and they say that it's too dangerous to enter the city because of the rabid dogs and raw sewage - when they're the ones who have created this health hazard.
- As a result of haphazard and inadequate culling, there is now a plague of rabid foxes affecting villages and cities in an arc across the Alps from Austria, through Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia to Poland.
- On July 6, 1885, Pasteur did something that no one else in human history had every done - he vaccinated a young boy who had been bitten more than 14 times by a rabid dog.
- Normally wolves would not be a problem, but a rabid wolf had been shot near the town only days before and we could see that our guide and the others were visibly worried about a possible attack.
- Unfortunately, reality is: if one reaches out to pet a rabid dog, no amount of wishful, pretty thinking will keep that dog from biting you.
- The last part of the name is supposed to come from a time when horehound was considered to be effective protection from the bite of a rabid dog.
- You could get stitched up and receive rabies vaccinations if you got mauled by a rabid dog.
Synonyms rabies-infected, mad, foaming at the mouth, hydrophobic - 2.1 Of or connected with rabies.
Derivatives noun rəˈbɪdɪti adverb ˈrabɪdli Unfortunately the rabidly right-wing rag (nice bit of alliteration there) has a circulation in excess of 2.4 million and a readership of over 6 million. Example sentencesExamples - Mention reverse mergers to investment professionals, and you'll get one of two reactions: they're either enthusiastically for or rabidly against them.
- But in reality, they are highly partisan - sometimes rabidly so.
- Can it be that we have got so rabidly paranoid about illegal immigration that we're now locking up children with no reason, apparently with the intention of deporting them as soon as possible?
- Every one of the game's leading practitioners holds an opinion, invariably rabidly positive or sneeringly negative.
noun Disrespecting a woman in a bar, as you may have observed, invites all manner of chest-thumping male heroism and screeching female rabidness. Example sentencesExamples - The persistent rabidness of your brand of criticism is not far from that sort of unhinged loony obsessive hatred.
- The rabidness of the Montreal fan base is the gift that keeps on giving.
- You guys seriously underestimate the rabidness of Beatles fans.
- We sit back aghast and appalled as Democrats seek to take down by nothing more than their rabidness one of our front runners for president in 2016.
Origin early 17th century (in the sense 'furious, madly violent'): from Latin rabidus, from rabere 'to rave'. rage from [ME]: In medieval times rage could also mean ‘madness’. It goes back ultimately to Latin rabere ‘to rave’, which is also the source of rabies, and early 17th-century rabid of which the early sense was ‘furious, madly violent’ (DickensDombey and Son: ‘He was made so rabid by the gout’). The sense ‘affected with rabies’ arose in the early 19th century. Since the late 18th century something that is the subject of a widespread temporary enthusiasm or fashion has been described as the rage or all the rage to mean ‘very popular or fashionable’. In 1811 the poet Lord Byron wrote that he was to hear his fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘who is a kind of rage at present’. Bad drivers have always caused annoyance, but with increasing traffic and pace of life some people are now provoked into road rage. The phrase is first recorded in 1988, since when many other kinds of rage have been reported, among them air rage, trolley rage in a supermarket, and even golf rage. Enrage dates from the late 15th century.
Definition of rabid in US English: rabidadjective 1Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something. the show's small but rabid fan base she's expecting more rabid support from the hometown fans Example sentencesExamples - Really, the rabid support for gun ownership stateside comes from an ideal that the people should be able to, if necessary, mount an armed resistance to a tyrannical and corrupt government for the purposes of revolution.
- A certain portion of these teachers are incompetents and frauds; some are rabid patriots and fundamentalists - and some are ham-fisted leftists.
- For as long as anyone can remember, Indonesian supporters have been infamous, rabid in their encouragement of winners and cruel in their criticism of the vanquished.
- One of the biggest forces in the underground scene right now is what's called extreme music, and it's got a rabid fanbase.
- Over the course of the years most of my rabid political beliefs have been tempered somewhat by increasing understanding of the situation.
- There's a small, but rabid group of fanatical followers.
- Plus, it's worth remembering that while convention-goers may be rabid partisans, the folks at home tend to be in the middle.
- In some instances, such as the eugenic movement, rabid prejudice against so-called racial inferiors combined with a belief in human progress.
- Televised sports events now evoke maniacal, raucous, rabid and even aggressive sentiments against rival nations or neighbours.
- In the process, he has been hailed as a prescient genius and dismissed as a rabid extremist, but almost always recognised as a novelist of great power and originality.
- There're idiots and rabid fanatics on both sides.
- On the night of 14 April, as he sat with his wife at Ford's Theatre in Washington, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and rabid Confederate supporter.
- It is to do with culture, they argue, and to keep indigenous populations from feeling ‘swamped’ and thus prey to rabid extremists.
- Rutgers fans speak with envy of Midwest football schools such as Nebraska, where the fan support is rabid and the local kids stick around.
- Many rabid political partisans are so thin-skinned that any unfavorable truth about their heroes muddles their thinking.
- He was a rabid snob and a squirming snake-pit of prejudice, without even the intelligence to realise that other people were as human as himself.
- I am not a rabid republican but a middle-of-the-road Irish person who is proud of her Irish history and does not like to see it rewritten by anti-Irish journalists with a unionist agenda offensive to ordinary Irish people.
- The governor's repeated claim that he will raise the issue of capital punishment during the 2004 session may be no more than a bone tossed to his more rabid supporters.
Synonyms extreme, fanatical, overzealous, over-enthusiastic, extremist, violent, maniacal, wild, passionate, fervent, diehard, uncompromising 2(of an animal) affected with rabies. Example sentencesExamples - Normally wolves would not be a problem, but a rabid wolf had been shot near the town only days before and we could see that our guide and the others were visibly worried about a possible attack.
- Unfortunately, reality is: if one reaches out to pet a rabid dog, no amount of wishful, pretty thinking will keep that dog from biting you.
- As a result of haphazard and inadequate culling, there is now a plague of rabid foxes affecting villages and cities in an arc across the Alps from Austria, through Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia to Poland.
- There is death and destruction and they say that it's too dangerous to enter the city because of the rabid dogs and raw sewage - when they're the ones who have created this health hazard.
- He went on to develop a rabies vaccine that was made from the spinal cords of rabid rabbits.
- The last part of the name is supposed to come from a time when horehound was considered to be effective protection from the bite of a rabid dog.
- ‘My Indian idyll came to an end four years after Independence because of a panther and a rabid dog,’ she wrote years later.
- Outside the United States, exposure to rabid dogs is the most common cause of transmission to humans.
- You could get stitched up and receive rabies vaccinations if you got mauled by a rabid dog.
- On July 6, 1885, Pasteur did something that no one else in human history had every done - he vaccinated a young boy who had been bitten more than 14 times by a rabid dog.
- A person who is bitten by a rabid animal but given treatment with rabies vaccines can expect not to develop rabies.
Synonyms rabies-infected, mad, foaming at the mouth, hydrophobic - 2.1 Of or connected with rabies.
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘furious, madly violent’): from Latin rabidus, from rabere ‘to rave’. |