What's the difference between furious and raging?

Furious


Definition:

  • (a.) Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
  • (a.) Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You have to prove there is a need.” Brian, a researcher with a PhD in medical science, was shocked and furious to find himself driven to food banks after a car accident, marital breakdown and sudden unemployment left him without enough money to live on.
  • (2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (3) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
  • (4) When Barak reneged on his commitment to transfer the three Jerusalem villages - a commitment he had specifically authorised Clinton to convey to Arafat - Clinton was furious.
  • (5) April 2011: A furious Spurs launch judicial review of the decision , while Leyton Orient also launch a High Court challenge.
  • (6) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Thomas Howarth: student, Derby "There's this perception that you've got to be furiously depressed and lonely to listen to the Smiths," says Thomas Howarth, 18, from Derby.
  • (7) Beijing is furious at the Nobel committee's decision to give the award to Liu, who is serving an 11-year sentence for incitement to subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms.
  • (8) However, at the time, he was furious that the Danish text which the US had received advance information about, had been leaked to the Guardian .
  • (9) China is furious at the decision to recognise Liu, jailed for incitement to subvert state power after co-authoring a call for democratic reforms.
  • (10) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
  • (11) And to suggest that this isn't going to affect his job as a minister - he's not going to be taken seriously by the home secretary, who I understand is absolutely furious about his appointment.
  • (12) There are two fantasies about the British countryside that were given ample play in last week's furious debates about the rights and wrongs of building there.
  • (13) A furious David Cameron forced to him to stand down at the last general election.
  • (14) A furious row has broken out among local politicians over a proposal to build a nuclear waste dump in Kent.
  • (15) Despite MacMaster's assertion "I do not believe that I have harmed anyone", activists were furious.
  • (16) In 2015, Pence signed an anti-LGBT bill opponents said would allow wide-scale discrimination, kicking off a furious and costly boycott of the state by much of corporate America.
  • (17) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
  • (18) Red Sox manager John Farrell immediately and furiously made his way from the dugout to contest the decision.
  • (19) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
  • (20) Delivering ultimatums is a sorry way to go about a ministry, but we will hang on by our fingertips, sad and furious in equal measure, until the authority of women and men is accepted by the church we love but, at times like this, find impossible to defend.

Raging


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rage
  • () a. & n. from Rage, v. i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," said Zuckerberg in 2010 during an intense few months as controversy raged over the complexity of Facebook's privacy settings.
  • (2) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
  • (3) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
  • (4) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
  • (5) It's easy to express rage over the Newtown shooting because so few of us bear any responsibility for it and - although we can take steps to minimize the impact and make similar attacks less likely - there is ultimately little we can do to stop psychotic individuals from snapping.
  • (6) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (7) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
  • (8) On Wednesday, fires raged and smoke billowed from the central offices of the Guerrero state government.
  • (9) Harwood quit the Metropolitan police on health grounds in 2001, shortly before a planned disciplinary hearing into claims that while off-duty he illegally tried to arrest a man in a road rage incident, altering notes retrospectively to justify his actions.
  • (10) "I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled and I took it badly and went into a rage," Richards said.
  • (11) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (12) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (13) The cholera-pandemic raging in South and Middle America and endemic cholera in other countries call for measures of health protection of the local population, but particularly with respect to the young, old, pregnant and immunocompromised citizens of countries importing food from the areas where the disease has struck.
  • (14) But in order for it to prompt meaningful action, the rage will have to be sustained and cannot be restricted to the desperate fate of the Chibok girls.
  • (15) Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept – he shed tears in his farewell address .
  • (16) In cases when lesion involves also the lateral septum, it produces the development of all signs of the septal syndrome (hyperemotionality, hyperactivity, rage, hyperphagia, etc.
  • (17) Every element of the band, from the logo to the stagewear to the raging sea of samples, was designed to draw maximum attention to their rebooted Black Power message.
  • (18) Many tropical diseases cause disability and hinder the socio-economic development of the Third World countries where they rage.
  • (19) They show he avoided likely disciplinary proceedings by the Metropolitan police over an alleged road rage incident by resigning owing to ill health.
  • (20) Supporters of a Libyan "day of rage" on Facebook reported that Derna and other eastern towns had been "liberated" from government forces.