rage noun, verb, raged, rag⋅ing. –noun 1. angry fury; violent anger. 2. a fit of violent anger. 3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc. 4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst. 5. a violent desire or passion. 6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage. 7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus. 8. Archaic. insanity. –verb (used without object) 9. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate. 10. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously. 11. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days. 12. (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.