RAGED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

raged

verb

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past tense of rage

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 Early in the year, wildfires raged for weeks, dominating national news cycles and essentially shutting down tourism in the area for the time. —

Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026 The violent rivalry between the WOOO and CHOO gangs has raged for years, with one veteran CHOO member even going as far as telling a 14-year-old shooter to keep up the violence, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. —

John Annese, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026 The full-scale war has raged in Ukraine for four years now and as of 2025, Russia had not only killed scores of soldiers and civilians, but also destroyed and damaged more than 850 libraries and over 1,000 cultural centers, according to Ukrinform, Ukraine’s national news agency. —

Mariia Yastreba, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 When influencer Mike Chau posted that Gigi’s half chicken goes for $40, keyboard warriors raged. —

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026 The country of around 38 million gained independence from Portugal in 1975, but still bears the scars of a devastating civil war that began straight after independence and raged on and off for 27 years before finally ending in 2002. —

ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026 The Wolverines hoisted the national championship trophy, confetti dropped and the celebration raged. —

Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026 As in the Hursh case, a battle over discovery in Nida — that is, a fight to see documents — raged for more than a year before attorneys won the right to see the State Farm documents and depose executives. —

J.c. Hallman, Oklahoma Watch, 31 Mar. 2026 The war, initially expected to be a brief campaign, raged on for four years from Virginia to the Arizona territory and claimed as many as 750,000 lives on both sides. —

Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026

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The mentalist was perhaps moments away from climbing inside the mind of the president on Saturday night when a 31-year-old teacher from Los Angeles stormed toward the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with two guns and fired at law enforcement.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
Police said the suspect had a shotgun, a handgun and knives, and stormed the lobby, running past security barricades as Secret Service agents raced toward him.

— Calvin Woodward, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026