Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rage \Rage\, n. [F., fr. L. rabies, fr. rabere to rave; cf. Skr.
   rabh to seize, rabhas violence. Cf. {Rabid}, {Rabies},
   {Rave}.]
   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.       --Hawthorne.

   2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering
      wrath; violent anger; fury.

            torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
                                                  --Milton.

   3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after,
      or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as,
      to be all the rage.

   Syn: Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See
        {Anger}.

Rage \Rage\, v. t.
   To enrage. [Obs.] --Shak.

Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Raging}.] [OF. ragier. See {Rage}, n.]
   1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be
      violently agitated with passion. ``Whereat he inly
      raged.'' --Milton.

            When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even
            to falling.                           --Shak.

   2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or
      agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or
      winds.

            Why do the heathen rage ?             --Ps. ii. 1.

            The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire
            was the noise.                        --Milton.

   3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with
      destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in
      Cairo.

   4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.

Source : WordNet®

rage
     n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
          scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: {fury},
          {madness}]
     2: a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused
        to answer"
     3: something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame
        destroyed him" [syn: {passion}]
     4: violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in
        thundering rage against the rocks"
     5: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always
        follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that
        season" [syn: {fad}, {craze}, {furor}, {furore}, {cult}]
     v 1: behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: {ramp},
           {storm}]
     2: be violent; as of fires and storms
     3: feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"