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Collocations for rage - noun

1. great anger

ADJ.

blind, cold, icy, pure | helpless, impotent
burning with impotent rage
pent-up, suppressed

QUANT.

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

VERB + RAGE

be beside yourself with, be boiling/burning with, be choked with, be filled with, be full of, be purple/red/white with, be rigid/stiff with, be shaking/trembling with, feel, seethe with
He glared at me, quite beside himself with rage. ‘How dare you!’ she said, her voice choked with rage.
vent
The people vented their rage on government buildings.
control, master
He managed to master his rage.

RAGE + VERB

build up
She felt the rage building up inside her.
erupt
His rage suddenly erupted.
subside
His rage was beginning to subside.

PREP.

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

PHRASES

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

2. sudden display of great anger

ADJ.

blind, terrible, towering | jealous | drunken
She smashed up his car in a drunken rage.

VERB + RAGE

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

PREP.

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

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