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. See More
As the war rages on, the sympathy of some Americans appears to be shifting from Israel to the Palestinians in Gaza.—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2023 Joséphine asks Napoleon as the decadent party rages on behind them.—Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023 The source of the strike on the Indonesian Hospital could not be independently verified, because heavy fighting raged around it.—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Nov. 2023 As storms raged overnight, many of those outside the warehouse who had been sheltering in tents lost them to the wind.—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023 The street-by-street battles over the posters have turned into a cultural flashpoint in the U.S. as the war between Israel and Hamas rages with no end in sight.—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023 The militants also kidnapped 240 people, mostly Israeli citizens, triggering a war that has raged for the past month.—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2023 Meanwhile, gunfire and explosions raged Monday around Gaza City's main hospital, Shifa, which has been encircled by Israeli troops for days.—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023 So why do people rage over ExxonMobil’s profits, but say absolutely nothing about Google’s?—Robert Rapier, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023 See More
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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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