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as in stormed
to express one's anger usually violently
the series of bad calls prompted the coach to rage about the refereeing
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as in steamed
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
still raging about his assistant's burnt pies, the pastry cook forgot to add the egg whites to his cake batter
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Recent Examples of raged
Total terror raged for a month or more.
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Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
The Barbz quickly worked to shut that notion down, but the debate raged on between the two fanbases.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Fires raged, tsunamis struck the coast, and entire neighborhoods disappeared.
—Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
As the Tush Push discourse raged Sunday night following the Chiefs’ 20-17 loss to the Eagles, another debate started.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
At times, officials, including senior advisor Stephen Miller, have raged against federal judges for standing in their way by issuing nationwide injunctions, some of which Sotomayor and her colleagues have then had brought before them.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
After all, the American right famously raged at former quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other players for taking a knee during the National Anthem, beginning in 2016, in protest of police brutality against people of color.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
The conflict has raged for nearly 23 months and resulted in 64,871 Palestinians being killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
There are now over 300 of them, and a spirited debate over their nature has raged for two years.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
The Barbz quickly worked to shut that notion down, but the debate raged on between the two fanbases.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Fires raged, tsunamis struck the coast, and entire neighborhoods disappeared.
—Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
As the Tush Push discourse raged Sunday night following the Chiefs’ 20-17 loss to the Eagles, another debate started.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
At times, officials, including senior advisor Stephen Miller, have raged against federal judges for standing in their way by issuing nationwide injunctions, some of which Sotomayor and her colleagues have then had brought before them.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
After all, the American right famously raged at former quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other players for taking a knee during the National Anthem, beginning in 2016, in protest of police brutality against people of color.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
The conflict has raged for nearly 23 months and resulted in 64,871 Palestinians being killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
There are now over 300 of them, and a spirited debate over their nature has raged for two years.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raged
Verb
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Junior tight end Bennett Jordan outjumped two defenders, somehow caught it, and the Mountain Brook team stormed the end zone.—
Grace Raynor,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Tigers-Guardians series brings plenty of storylines after Cleveland stormed back to take the division.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Sean Longstaff steamed in to give Adams a shove.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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In addition to using Brussels sprouts in salads, they can be roasted, steamed or sauteed.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The juice is extracted, boiled, cleaned of impurities, and crystallized.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
2 Oct. 2025
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The recipe calls for the watery stalks to be boiled in meat broth and served chilled, accompanied with ketchup and anchovies.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Raged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raged. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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