Word Meanings - RAGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Rage, v. i. -- Ra"*ging*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAGING)

• Angry
• Wrathful
• irate
• resentful
• ireful
• incensed
• furious
• irascible
• choleric
• moody
• nettled
• touchy
• sullen
• piqued
• excited
• provoked
• raging
• chafed
• hasty
• hot
• exasperated
• indignant
• passionate
• Fierce
• Wild
• savage
• violent
• fiery
• impetuous
• ferocious
• Rabid
• Furious
• mad
• infuriated
• maniacal
• frantic
• raving
• Vehement
• Violent
• ardent
• burning
• fervent
• fervid
• urgent
• forcible
• eager

Related words: (words related to RAGING)

• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• RAVENER
  1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• INCENSIVE
  Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• VEHEMENTLY
  In a vehement manner.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• RAVEN
  A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• MORAVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
  The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.