(n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
(n.) To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
(n.) To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
(n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
(n.) To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
(v. t.) To enrage.
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.
Subside
Definition:
(v. i.) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
(v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
(v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
(2) However, endotoxin-induced wound chamber fluid in C5 D mice showed an increasing leukotactic activity at the same time as the acute inflammatory response subsided in C5 N mice.
(3) Usually it took 3-6 months for majority (61.5%) of reactions subside completely.
(4) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
(5) Because in 21 of 28 patients with acute cholecystitis symptoms and signs subsided within 48 hours of conservative management in hospital, they recommend a two-day trial of conservative management for patients with acute cholecystitis and operation only for those who are not definitely improving under optimal conditions.
(6) The system subsides "en bloc," and it is common practice to offer a modification to the Stokes equation which takes into consideration some function of the porosity of the system.
(7) Appraisal of the results suggested an induction of microsomal enzymes which appeared to be subsiding after the cessation of direct exposure to PCBs.
(8) As an incentive, there should be mass availability of all types of contraceptive devices free of charge to users or at least highly subsidized.
(9) Only when fenestrations were employed did the irritation subside and disappear.
(10) That means that the money being spent on food stamps is money that the government is paying to subsidize company profits: as businesses pay a minimum or near-minimumwage, their workers are forced to turn to government programs to make ends meet.
(11) After a successful second defibrillation, the patient developed Osborn waves, which subsided within a few minutes.
(12) Monosynaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked in rat spinal motoneurons by stimulation of a muscle nerve are enhanced during the first few days after section of the muscle nerve before subsiding to subnormal levels.
(13) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
(14) Violence had subsided by Sunday evening – but not before dozens had been shot or stabbed, leaving 25 dead and 56 injured.
(15) Measurement of serum neopterin levels demonstrated no significant change from baseline during the first 6 h after endotoxin administration, but were elevated two to four-fold at 24 h. In the three subjects in whom it was measured, a two-fold rise of the mean serum neopterin levels persisted at 48 h. The acute inflammatory events initiated by endotoxin administration to normal humans result in a delayed, but sustained, rise in serum neopterin levels which persists well after the acute phase response has subsided.
(16) Antibiotics in acute stage should be instituted as early as possible and should be continued for three weeks after the fever subsides.
(17) Now, with the initial euphoria subsided, the time has come to see just how playable these new gewgaws actually are.
(18) After the cholangitis subsided, ESWL was performed under the direct cholangiography through ENBD and PTBD and excellent results were obtained which are herein reported.
(19) The skin nodules disappeared as the hypercalcaemia resolved and the cytomegalovirus infection subsided.
(20) Injection of water alone caused a mild inflammatory response that subsided rapidly.