fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.
last year's fad is over
rage and craze stress intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad.
Cajun food was the rage nearly everywhere for a time
crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing craze but have lasted
Examples of rage in a Sentence
Noun
Her note to him was full of rage.
He was shaking with rage.
She was seized by a murderous rage.
His rages rarely last more than a few minutes. Verb
She raged about the injustice of their decision.
The manager raged at the umpire.
A storm was raging outside, but we were warm and comfortable indoors.
The fire raged for hours.
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Noun
And then the other thing is that the character, traditionally, at least, from the core comic books, is a guy who cannot control his rage.—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024 But Juliette manages to make it to the surface in the nick of time, fueled in part by the rage of betrayal.—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
To the north, fierce urban battles are raging in Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, towns that have long stood as the barricades holding back direct Russian assaults on the agglomeration of the major cities at the heart of the Donetsk region.—Marc Santora, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Inflation, pre-Volcker, raged simultaneously with recession, something liberal economists said could not happen.—The Editors, National Review, 29 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rage
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence
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