Rage vs. Raze — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rage and Raze
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Definitions
Rage
Violent, explosive anger.
Raze
To level to the ground; demolish.
Rage
A fit of anger.
Raze
To scrape or shave off.
Rage
Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
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Raze
To erase.
Rage
A burning desire; a passion
A rage for innovation in music.
Raze
(transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.
Rage
A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze
When torn jeans were all the rage.
Raze
(transitive) To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate.
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Rage
To speak or act in violent anger
Raged at the mindless bureaucracy.
Raze
(transitive) To scrape as if with a razor.
Rage
To move with great violence or intensity
A storm raged through the mountains.
Raze
A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
Rage
To spread or prevail forcefully
The plague raged for months.
Raze
To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Razing the characters of your renown.
Rage
Violent uncontrolled anger.
Raze
To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy.
Rage
A current fashion or fad.
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
Raze
Tear down so as to make flat with the ground;
The building was levelled
Rage
An exciting and boisterous party.
Rage
(obsolete) Any vehement passion.
Rage
(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
Rage
To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
Rage
To party hard; to have a good time.
Rage
To enrage.
Rage
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
Convulsed with a rage of grief.
Rage
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
Rage
A violent or raging wind.
Rage
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
Rage
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
When one so great begins to rage, he is huntedEven to falling.
Rage, rage against the dying of the lightDo not go gentle into that good night.
Rage
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?
The madding wheelsOf brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
Rage
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
Rage
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
Rage
To enrage.
Rage
A feeling of intense anger;
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
His face turned red with rage
Rage
A state of extreme anger;
She fell into a rage and refused to answer
Rage
Something that is desired intensely;
His rage for fame destroyed him
Rage
Violent state of the elements;
The sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks
Rage
An interest followed with exaggerated zeal;
He always follows the latest fads
It was all the rage that season
Rage
Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
Rage
Be violent; as of fires and storms
Rage
Feel intense anger;
Rage against the dying of the light!
