RAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raging mean? 

• RAGING (adjective)
  The adjective RAGING has 3 senses:

1. characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense

2. very severe

3. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

  Familiarity information: RAGING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense

Synonyms:

hot; raging

Context example:

the river became a raging torrent

Similar:

violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very severe

Context example:

a raging toothache

Similar:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of the elements) as if showing violent anger

Synonyms:

angry; furious; raging; tempestuous; wild

Context example:

the raging sea

Similar:

stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)

 Context examples 

And he fled to Kiche, raging at the end of her stick like an animal gone mad—to Kiche, the one creature in the world who was not laughing at him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck was raging. He broke into a run, the team following his lead.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Because he is the devil, as I told you before,” was Leach’s answer; and thereat he was on his feet and raging his disappointment with tears in his eyes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This quarrel was the saving of us, for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet—the tramp of horses galloping.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Between these two formidable assailants the seamen were being slowly wedged more closely together, until they stood back to back under the mast with the rovers raging upon every side of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo had burned the skin off her nose boating, and got a raging headache by reading too long.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Prendergast was like a raging devil, and he picked the soldiers up as if they had been children and threw them overboard alive or dead.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I think I am nearer the truth," she replied, "when I stand by the established, than you are, raging around like an iconoclastic South Sea Islander."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Fires raging in Australia since September have killed 24 people, destroyed more than 1,500 homes, and razed 6 million hectares of land, leaving more than 500 million animals dead.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

I have started up so vividly impressed by it, that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room, in the still night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)