Anger vs. Rage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anger and Rage
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Anger
Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion which triggers part of the fight or flight response.
Rage
Violent, explosive anger.
Anger
A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility
The colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience
Rage
A fit of anger.
Anger
Fill (someone) with anger; provoke anger in
He was angered that he had not been told
She was angered by his terse answer
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Rage
Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
Anger
A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.
Rage
A burning desire; a passion
A rage for innovation in music.
Anger
To make angry; enrage or provoke.
Rage
A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze
When torn jeans were all the rage.
Anger
To become angry
She angers too quickly.
Rage
To speak or act in violent anger
Raged at the mindless bureaucracy.
Anger
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.
You need to control your anger.
Rage
To move with great violence or intensity
A storm raged through the mountains.
Anger
(obsolete) Pain or stinging.
Rage
To spread or prevail forcefully
The plague raged for months.
Anger
(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
He who angers you conquers you.
Rage
Violent uncontrolled anger.
Anger
(intransitive) To become angry.
You anger too easily.
Rage
A current fashion or fad.
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
Anger
Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Rage
An exciting and boisterous party.
Anger
A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
Anger is likeA full hot horse, who being allowed his way,Self-mettle tires him.
Rage
(obsolete) Any vehement passion.
Anger
To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
He . . . angereth malign ulcers.
Rage
(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
Anger
To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.
Rage
To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
Anger
A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
Rage
To party hard; to have a good time.
Anger
The state of being angry
Rage
To enrage.
Anger
Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Rage
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
Convulsed with a rage of grief.
Anger
Make angry;
The news angered him
Rage
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
Anger
Become angry;
He angers easily
Rage
A violent or raging wind.
Rage
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
Rage
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
When one so great begins to rage, he is huntedEven to falling.
Rage, rage against the dying of the lightDo not go gentle into that good night.
Rage
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?
The madding wheelsOf brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
Rage
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
Rage
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
Rage
To enrage.
Rage
A feeling of intense anger;
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
His face turned red with rage
Rage
A state of extreme anger;
She fell into a rage and refused to answer
Rage
Something that is desired intensely;
His rage for fame destroyed him
Rage
Violent state of the elements;
The sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks
Rage
An interest followed with exaggerated zeal;
He always follows the latest fads
It was all the rage that season
Rage
Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
Rage
Be violent; as of fires and storms
Rage
Feel intense anger;
Rage against the dying of the light!
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