Rave
[reɪv] or [rev]
Definition
(noun.) an extravagantly enthusiastic review; 'he gave it a rave'.
(noun.) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played; 'raves are very popular in Berlin'.
(verb.) praise enthusiastically; 'She raved about that new restaurant'.
(verb.) participate in an all-night techno dance party.
Typist: Remington--From WordNet
Definition
(-) imp. of Rive.
(n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
(v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.
(v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
(v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Rage, be mad, be wild, be delirious, talk irrationally.
Typist: Ronald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wander, drivel, rant
ANT:Converse, reason, discourse
Checker: Tina
Definition
v.i. to be mad: to be wild or raging like a madman: to talk irrationally.—v.t. to utter wildly.—ns. Rā′ver one who raves or is furious; Rā′ving furious talk.—adj. delirious: distracted.—adv. Rā′vingly in a raving manner: with frenzy: with distraction.
old pa.t. of rive.
n. one of the side pieces of a wagon.
Editor: Michel
Examples
- I quite rave about Jane Fairfax. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I rave: perhaps at this moment he is watching the sun rise over the Pyrenees, or on the tideless sea of the south. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That they Rave been sent already from Valladolid. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To rant, to rave, to be tragic, to make situations--it was all too late. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But her fears seemed the uglier, thus shorn of their vagueness; and besides, she had to act, not rave. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You and Henry rave about poetry! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Do he rave about his mother just the same, poor fellow? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When I returned to the bedside of the young woman, I found her raving in precisely the same order of continuity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The latter had been raving against America, as traitorous, rebellious, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The instinctive c raving for power, the will to dominate, of which Nietzsche was the lyricist, was in these men subdued to patience, industry, and philanthropy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I left him raving. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Dobbin was not a little affected by the sight of this once kind old friend, crazed almost with misfortune and raving with senile anger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This produced a settled gloom, which in time developed a morbid insanity, and finally terminated in raving madness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The more I raved, the more Jip barked. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the back kitchen, I raved as became me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I raved and cursed,--cursed God and man; and, for a while, I believe, he really was afraid of me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That passion of January, so white and so bloodless, was not yet spent: the storm had raved itself hoarse, but seemed no nearer exhaustion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was for ever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Again Holmes raved in the air. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They built a wall between them and the world--Without, a thousand harpies raved, remorse and misery, expecting the destined moment for their invasion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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