different between ravage vs rage

English

Etymology

From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (harpáz?, “to seize”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æv?d?/

Verb

ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)

1. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
2. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
3. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.

Related terms

• rapid

Translations

Noun

ravage (plural ravages)

1. Grievous damage or havoc.
2. Depredation or devastation

   the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time

Translations

Further reading

• ravage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ravage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra??va?.??/
• Hyphenation: ra?va?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

ravage f (plural ravages)

1. havoc, damage

Anagrams

• gevaar

French

Etymology

From ravine (“rush of water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.va?/

Noun

ravage m (plural ravages)

1. singular of ravages
2. (archaic) The act of laying waste.

Verb

ravage

1. first-person singular present indicative of ravager
2. third-person singular present indicative of ravager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
5. second-person singular imperative of ravager

Further reading

• “ravage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gavera

English

Etymology

Old French rage (French: rage), from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger, fury”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. A current fashion or fad.
3. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
   • convulsed with a rage of grief

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVII (1609 Quarto)

     And your true rights be termed a poet's rage

Synonyms

• fury
• ire

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2. (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
3. (obsolete) To enrage.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, gear

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra???/, [?????]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekan? (“to pile”) and *rakjan? (“to stretch”).

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to scrape
2. (dated) to shave

   Synonym: barbere

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “rage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German r?ken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Dutch raken (Swedish råka is also borrowed from Low German). Probably related ot the previous verb.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. (transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business
2. (transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business
   • 1967, Christian Kampmann, Sammen, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Men det rager mig, hvad folk siger .

   • 2007, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Submarino, Art People (?ISBN)

     “Det rager mig, hvad hun har lyst til.”

Inflection

References

• “rage,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hrag?n?, cognate with Old English oferhragan.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to jut, stick out, stand out

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “rage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?.??/
• Hyphenation: ra?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

rage f or m (plural rages)

1. craze, fad, fashion.

Synonyms

• hype, modegril

Derived terms

• Pokémonrage

French

Etymology

From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. rage (fury, anger)
   • 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.

2. rabies (disease)
   • 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.

Derived terms

• enrager
• fou de rage
• faire rage
• rage de dents
• rage au volant
• vert de rage

Further reading

• “rage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gare, garé, géra

German

Verb

rage

1. inflection of ragen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabi?s (“anger, fury”).

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. (Jersey) rabies

Old French

Alternative forms

• raige (uncommon)

Noun

rage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragere. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rad??e]

Verb

a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

1. (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow

Conjugation

Derived terms

• r?get

See also

• urla, mugi, ?ipa, zbiera