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lost lamb, babe in the wood, stray, guttersnipe, scarecrow: We
took in a poor little ragamuffin who was shaking from the cold.
rage n. 1 anger, fury, wrath, ire, high dudgeon, exasperation,
vehemence, passion: Imagine her rage when Simon phoned to say
that he couldn't make it home for dinner! 2 fury, passion,
frenzy, hysterics, tantrum, fit, temper, Brit paddy or
paddywhack or paddywack, Colloq Brit wax: He flies into a rage
if Grace is as little as five minutes late for an appointment. 3
fashion, craze, vogue, the (latest or newest) thing, last word,
dernier cri, mode, Colloq fad: Miniskirts were all the rage in
the 1960s.
--v. 4 rant, rave, storm, go mad or crazy or bonkers or wild or
out of one's mind, go berserk, run amok or amuck, behave or act
or be like one possessed, fret, be beside oneself (with anger or
fury), lose one's temper, go berserk, have a tantrum, fulminate,
explode; fume, foam at the mouth, stew, smoulder, boil, seethe,
simmer, Colloq have kittens, lose one's cool, fly off the
handle, go off the deep end, Slang get into or work oneself up
into a lather or stew or sweat, get all worked up, blow one's
top, blow a gasket, blow up, flip one's top or lid, hit the
ceiling or roof, freak out, be fit to be tied, be ready for a
strait-jacket, Brit throw a wobbly, US and Canadian blow one's
stack, flip one's wig, blow a fuse, have a haemorrhage, go ape,
do a slow burn, have a conniption fit: Father raged for hours
when he found that Donald had borrowed the car without
permission.
ragged adj. 1 rough, shaggy, shabby, seedy, tattered, unkempt,
scraggy, torn, rent, ripped, frayed, worn (out), threadbare,
patched, patchy, ravelled, Chiefly Brit tatty, Brit down at
heel, US down at the heel(s), Colloq US frazzled, beat-up: On
weekends, Charles put on his most ragged clothes to work in the
garden. 2 rough, uneven, irregular, nicked, jagged; serrated,
sawtooth(ed), zigzag, notched, toothed, denticulate(d), ridged:
Every morning on his way to work, his first sight of the factory
was the ragged edge of its roof. 3 worn out, tired, exhausted,
on one's last legs, the worse for wear, dead tired, overtired,
fatigued, weary, fagged out, spent, Colloq all in, dog-tired,
Slang dead (on one's feet), (dead) beat, Brit knackered, US and
Canadian pooped (out): The emergency crew was run ragged by
thirty hours on duty without rest. 4 bad, rough, patchy,