(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.
Tantrum
Definition:
(n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air.
Example Sentences:
(1) He learned many of the other crucial skills that were either lacking, or absent: the ability to point, and imitate; the habit of commenting on his surroundings; how to divert his energy away from tantrums into productive activity.
(2) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(3) Patients with Down's syndrome usually have mild and pleasant temperaments, rarely exhibiting temper tantrums or behavioral problems.
(4) In other changes to the DSM, abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be diagnosed as DMDD, meaning disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
(5) Just recall the market's "taper tantrums" in May 2013, when then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested a far more modest turn in monetary policy.
(6) It really accentuates the inherent slapstick in every Steven Gerrard shank, and every Joachim Löw tantrum.
(7) They need to pass our bill.” A tantrum is not far off.
(8) Inside the US, states and cities have said they will continue to honour their commitments, regardless of Trump’s tantrum.
(9) The IMF describes the markets’ so-called “taper tantrum” earlier this year, after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke mooted the idea of “tapering” QE, as a “mini stress test”, which helped to reveal how investors might respond as monetary policy returns to normal.
(10) A little five-year-old has a tantrum, well these kids had a tantrum on a big scale.
(11) In Experiment 1, we developed an assessment method for identifying situations in which behavior problems, including aggression, tantrums, and self-injury, were most likely to occur.
(12) We learned it first from the Washington Post, which revealed explosive details of a Trump temper tantrum over the refugee resettlement deal the Turnbull government spent months stitching together with the Obama administration.
(13) Bernie Sanders, with the presidential gravitas of a toddler, first attempted to shout his usual stump speech over the protestors, and then scolded them for interrupting him and held what one could only describe as a mini public tantrum.
(14) Nail-biting (25.0%) was the commonest associated neurotic trait, followed by enuresis (20.9%), temper-tantrum (12.5%), etc.
(15) For starters, whereas the 2013 taper tantrum caught markets by surprise, the Fed’s intention to hike rates this year, clearly stated over many months, will not.
(16) Weekend newspaper supplements retailed gossipy accounts of how The Satanic Verses had failed to win the Booker prize, with malicious claims regarding Rushdie's tantrums when this happened.
(17) He was by turn patient, stubborn and just too damn good, winning a contest marked by swearing, stare-downs, minor tantrums, an odd time violation and some artful tennis on a chill, still night on Rod Laver Arena, with the man himself among an enthralled audience.
(18) Several observers criticised Kagame's Twitter tantrum as exhibiting a lack of dignity.
(19) Germany had not anticipated the brilliance of his semi-final display at Euro 2012, and yet this is still a young player prone to tantrums and, as against the Czechs in qualification, disciplinary issues.
(20) He had a temper tantrum after a show in San Diego, and we had to leave the dressing room because it was so bad.