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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged p. pr. & vb. n. Raging ]
 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. “Whereat he inly raged.”
 When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted
 Even to falling.   --Shak.
 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
    Why do the heathen rage?   --Ps. ii. 1.
 The madding wheels
 Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.   --Milton.
 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
 4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.]
 Syn: -- To storm; fret; chafe; fume.