fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.
last year's fad is over
rage and craze stress intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad.
Cajun food was the rage nearly everywhere for a time
crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing craze but have lasted
Examples of rage in a Sentence
Noun
Her note to him was full of rage.
He was shaking with rage.
She was seized by a murderous rage.
His rages rarely last more than a few minutes. Verb
She raged about the injustice of their decision.
The manager raged at the umpire.
A storm was raging outside, but we were warm and comfortable indoors.
The fire raged for hours.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Such harm usually comes at the expense of workers, customers, and communities—and explains much of the malaise and inchoate rage that plagues America.—Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024 In the carnage of Carti’s Inferno, all is fast, and all is rage.—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Verb
The raging floodwaters swept 11 people away, and only five were rescued.—CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024 Getty Images Vance and Walz may be debating in Manhattan, but their focus is likely to shift some 600 miles west to Springfield, Ohio, which became the epicenter of a raging political battle after the Republican ticket stoked lies about the city’s influx of Haitian immigrants.—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,josephine Rozzelle,brian Schwartz,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rage
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence
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