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raging

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rag·ing  (rjng)
adj.
1. Very active and unpredicatable; volatile: a raging debate; a raging fire.
2. Remarkable; extraordinary: a raging hit on prime-time TV.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.raging - characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging torrent"
violent - acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike"
2.raging - very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
intense - possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"
3.raging - (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"
stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"

raging
adjective furious, mad, raving, fuming, frenzied, infuriated, incensed, enraged, seething, fizzing Scot. incandescent, foaming at the mouth, fit to be tied (slang) boiling mad (informal) beside yourself, doing your nut Brit. (slang) off the air Austral. (slang)
Translations
raging [ˈreɪdʒɪŋ] adjfurioso;
in a raging temper → de un humor de mil demonios
raging [ˈreɪdʒɪŋ] adj [sea, storm] → en furie; [fever, pain] → violent(e);
raging toothache → rage f de dents;
in a raging temper → dans une rage folle
raging [ˈreɪdʒɪŋ] rage adj (sea, storm, torrent) → tobend, tosend;
(fever) → heftig;
(thirst) → brennend;
(toothache) → rasend
raging [ˈreɪdʒɪŋ] adj (all senses) → furioso/a;
in a raging temper → su tutte le furie


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Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody's life, footsteps not easily made clean again if once stained red, the footsteps raging in Saint Antoine afar off, as the little circle sat in the dark London window.
Mute o'er the raging sea hast thou risen for me to-day; thy love and thy modesty make a revelation unto my raging soul.
The wreck struck the rock with one end, and swinging round, flung poor Clappine off into the raging stream, which swept him away, and he perished.
 
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