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Collocations for rage - noun

1. great anger

ADJECTIVE

blind, pure
blinding, boiling, burning, seething, uncontrollable
homicidal (esp. AmE), murderous
helpless, impotent
She was burning with impotent rage.
pent-up, suppressed

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… OF RAGE

bout, burst, fit
He punched the wall in a fit of rage.

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VERB + rage

be full of, feel, fill sb with
He was filled with rage.
be beside yourself with, be boiling with, burn with, explode with, fume with, seethe with
He glared at me, quite beside himself with rage.
Her eyes were burning with rage.
I was seething with rage.
be contorted with, contort with
‘How dare you!’ she said, her face contorted with rage.
shake with, tremble with
He was literally shaking with rage.
Her voice was trembling with rage.
be red with, be white with
express, unleash, vent
The people vented their rage on government buildings.
fuel
His answer only seemed to fuel her rage.
channel, control, master
He managed to master his rage.

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rage + VERB

boil, boil over, boil up, burn
Ron felt rage boil up inside him.
Her rage boiled over as she burst into tears.
build up, grow
She felt the rage building up inside her.
consume sb, fill sb
Blind rage consumed him.
erupt
His rage suddenly erupted.
subside
His rage was beginning to subside.

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PREPOSITION

with rage
She was speechless with rage.
rage at
He was boiling with rage at the unfairness of it all.

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PHRASES

a bellow of rage, a cry of rage, a roar of rage, a scream of rage
He gave a roar of rage and punched me in the face.
tears of rage

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2. sudden display of great anger

ADJECTIVE

blind, terrible, towering
violent
He was prone to violent rages.
jealous
drunken
She started hitting him in a drunken rage.
air, road, etc.
A motorist was assaulted in a road rage attack.

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VERB + rage

be in, fly into, get in
If something's too difficult she gets in a rage.

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PREPOSITION

in a rage
She killed him in a rage of despair.
rage about
He was in a towering rage about his lost watch.
rage at
He flew into a rage at the insult.
rage of
He left in a rage of humiliation.

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Collocations for rage - verb

1. show great anger

ADVERB

inwardly

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PREPOSITION

about
She was still raging about the treatment she had received.
against
I raged inwardly against his injustice.
at
The team was left raging at the referee's decision.

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2. continue with great force

ADVERB

on, still
The argument still rages on.

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PREPOSITION

around
Even the dogs were quiet while the heated quarrel raged around them.
through
Fire raged through the forest.
within
She tried to control the fury raging within her.

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PHRASES

rage unabated
The storm raged unabated.

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Rage is used with these nouns as the subject:
argument, battle, blizzard, conflict, controversy, debate, fighting, fire, row, storm, war

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