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rabid

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rab·id  (rbd)
adj.
1. Of or affected by rabies.
2. Raging; uncontrollable: rabid thirst.
3. Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical: a rabid football fan.

[Latin rabidus, from rabere, to rave.]

ra·bidi·ty (r-bd-t, r-), rabid·ness (rbd-ns) n.
rabid·ly adv.

rabid [ˈræbɪd ˈreɪ-]
adj
1. (Medicine / Pathology) relating to or having rabies
2. zealous; fanatical; violent; raging
[from Latin rabidus frenzied, mad, from rabere to be mad]
rabidity  [rəˈbɪdɪtɪ], rabidness n
rabidly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.rabid - of or infected by rabies
2.rabid - marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"
passionate - having or expressing strong emotions

rabid
adjective
2. crazed, wild, violent, mad, raging, furious, frantic, frenzied, infuriated, berserk, maniacal The tablets gave him the look of a rabid dog.
Translations
rabid [ˈræbɪd] ADJ [dog] → rabioso (fig) [person] → fanático
rabid [ˈræbɪd] adj
[dog, animal] → enragé(e)
[nationalist, racist, supporter] → enragé(e); [nationalism, views] → fanatique
rabid
adj
(Vet) → tollwütig
(= fanatical)fanatisch; reformer, hatredfanatisch, wild
rabid [ˈræbɪd] adj (dog) → idrofobo/a, rabbioso/a (fig) (furious) → arrabbiato/a; (fanatical) → fanatico/a
rabid [ˈræbɪd] adj (dog) → idrofobo/a, rabbioso/a (fig) (furious) → arrabbiato/a; (fanatical) → fanatico/a


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Martin told him that his hatred of the magazines was rabid, fanatical, and that his conduct was a thousand times more despicable than that of the youth who burned the temple of Diana at Ephesus.
Mugridge seemed to be in rabid fear of the water, and he exhibited a nimbleness and speed we did not dream he possessed.
"Well, then, you shall have plenty of it; and first, I see you've not much more sense than some others of my acquaintance"(indicating me with his thumb), "or else you'd never turn rabid about that dirty little country called England; for rabid, I see you are; I read Anglophobia in your looks, and hear it in your words.
 
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