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. - RAGLAN
A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general. - INCENSIVE
Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow. - 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. - TETRAGYNIA
A Linnæan order of plants having four styles. - 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. - 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 - BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
See BURNER - SUNBURNING
Sunburn; tan. Boyle. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - CORAL-RAG
See CORALLIAN - MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.