raveverb [ I ]
uk/reɪv/us/reɪv/rave verb [ I ] (SPEAK FOOLISHLY)
to speak in an uncontrolled way, usually because you are upset or angry, or because you are ill:
He's always raving (on) about the government.
She was ranting and raving about some imagined insult.
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Talking angrily
- berate
- bite
- bite sb's head off idiom
- bite/snap sb's head off idiom
- diatribe
- edge
- head
- hit
- jump
- jump down sb's throat idiom
- piece
- rant
- snap sb's head off idiom
- snarl
- spit
- spit sth out
- tear 1
- tear into sb/sth
- tut
- upbraid
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Ways of talking
rave verb [ I ] (PRAISE)
informal to praise something very much:
She raved about/over the clothes she had seen at the Paris fashion shows.
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Praising and applauding
- a pat on the back idiom
- acclaim
- acclamation
- accolade
- adulate
- cheer
- exalt
- extol
- felicitations
- fete
- full marks to sb idiom
- lay
- pat
- praise
- recognize
- rhapsodic
- rhapsody
- round of applause idiom
- shout-out
- sing
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raveadjective [ before noun ]
uk/reɪv/us/reɪv/informaladmiring and giving a lot of praise:
The show has received rave reviews/notices in all the papers.
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Excited, interested and enthusiastic
- aflutter
- agog
- all of a flutter idiom
- amped
- animated
- be as high as a kite idiom
- delirious
- exhilarated
- fanatical
- fascinated
- fasten
- fasten on/upon sth
- flushed
- flutter
- overheated
- overzealous
- passionate
- pop-eyed
- potty
- sniff
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ravenoun [ C ]
uk/reɪv/us/reɪv/mainly UK informalan event where young people dance to modern electronic music and sometimes take illegal drugs:
an all-night/open-air rave
rave music
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Celebrations, parties & special occasions
- a night on the town idiom
- a/the gathering of the clans idiom
- afterparty
- April Fool's Day
- bachelor party
- fayre
- feast
- fest
- festival
- festive
- fundraiser
- Mother's Day
- New Year's Eve
- night
- nightclubbing
- nightlife
- occasion
- prom
- rage
- Valentine's Day
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