characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
<adj.all> the fighting became hot and heavy a hot engagement a raging battle the river became a raging torrent
very severe
<adj.all> a raging thirst a raging toothache
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
<adj.all> angry clouds on the horizon furious winds the raging sea
Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raged} (r[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Raging} (r[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [OF. ragier. See {Rage}, n.] 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. ``Whereat he inly raged.'' --Milton.
When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted Even to falling. --Shak.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan Thomas. [PJC]
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.] --Chaucer.
Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
Raging \Ra"ging\ (r[=a]"j[i^]ng), a. & n. from {Rage}, v. i. -- {Ra"ging*ly}, adv.
The real paradox, Mr. Grant says, is the raging of an "intergalactic bull market" amid signs of a "weakening credit structure."
With Mexico's high interest rates falling and inflation at 130% a year and climbing, yields on bank deposits last month turned negative in inflation-adjusted terms, leaving the raging stock market an irresistible choice for thousands of new investors.
A 7,700-acre fire along the Great Divide in southwestern New Mexico that has been raging out of control since Monday should be contained by next Monday, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jim Payne.
It hugs the Indus gorge all the way, carved or blasted out of the rock walls that tower above it, with the river silently sweeping or raging and roaring hundreds of metres below.
In using this history to gauge what the future may hold, Mr. Johnson conservatively eliminates the raging bull market of 1982-1990, which lifted the Dow industrials 286%.
Another Battle of Britain is raging but it's not about warplane dominance over the skies.
During the raging bull market, investors often were willing to scoop up any new security Wall Street could concoct.
Last April 4, when the Iran-Iraq war was still raging, Iranian gunboats attacked the Sagheera, setting it afire near the Strait of Hormuz.
"The debate concerning survivability has been raging for years and apparently will continue," said Rep. Nicholas Mavroules, D-Mass., one of the chief opponents of the weapon in Reagan's first term.
Water, mud and boulders washed many such shacks down the steep slopes and turned streets below into raging torrents and even lagoons.
The Iraqis have admitted the loss of several towns in Sulaimaniyeh province as Iran reported fighting still raging between its Revolutionary Guards and Iraq's 5th Corps.
Even at nondiscount supermarkets, the price war is raging. Consider the toilet paper market.
The sales feature artworks, in many cases, of lower quality than available during the raging art boom, the works carry significantly lower price estimates, and there are far fewer of them on the block.
Controversy raging over art in much of the country centers on obscenity, but on the high-tech MIT campus the argument is whether a big hairy thing is thought-provoking or just an eyesore.
"He was fired from the White House, offered as a sacrificial lamb so to speak to the raging Congress," Sullivan said, referring to the day North was fired in November 1986.
They said the battle was still raging.
In Jordan, the narrow gorge leading into the ancient city of Petra, the country's main tourist attraction, had to be closed. Officials feared that melting snow would turn it into a raging flood course.
Tomas Borge's thugs spent last week clubbing people for expressing their annoyance with food shortages, raging inflation and the loss of political freedom.
The fighting, described by Soviet officials as virtually a civil war, has been raging for more than a week along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
About 200 American firefighters are helping Canadian crews battle hundreds of forest fires raging across the drought-parched prairie provinces and northern Ontario.
While savers lent their money to banks for as little as 5.25 percent interest in passbook accounts, raging inflation cut the buying power of those savings to a fraction.
The government confirmed the new fighting Friday night, and a government radio station in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, said battles were raging today.
The government says the 1993 unfinanced budget deficit will be Rbs182.9m, or 7.9 per cent of gross domestic product. The inflation rate, still raging at 25-35 per cent a month, particularly worries international bankers.
Graeme Hick seems to have regained his composure there for England after a winter of fallibility. Minefield - a raging bunsen that helps fast bowlers as well.
Leaping through the horns of a raging bull and then hand-springing from its back may sound like simple showing-off.
Bogdan Kecman, leader of the Slav minority group Bozur described the calm in Kosovo as temporary. "The peace is just a cover," he asserted. "Inside, war is raging." Albanians continued to hold wildcat strikes in the province.
In Texas, a 13-year-old boy drowned in a rain-swollen creek and a fisherman was rescued from the raging Llano River.
The vote marks the latest volley in the dispute between Kiev and Crimea which has been raging since the Soviet Union's collapse left the predominantly Russian Black Sea region within Ukraine, to which it had been transferred in 1954.
On Second Avenue downtown, a fight is raging over a proposed 21-story office building that would rise directly across the street from a stretch of restored Victorian warehouse buildings.
In Washington, though, a bureaucratic battle is raging over how warm the ties should be and how much technology should be sold.