rave
/ɹeɪv/ verb C2- To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
- To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
- To talk or otherwise express oneself with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement. · He raved about her beauty.
- To speak (a message) with intense enthusiasm, passion or excitement. · She raved that she must seek revenge against the wrongdoers.
- To attend a rave (dance party).
He/she/it raves · Past raved · Past participle raved · -ing form raving
Verb forms
- Base form
- rave
- He/she/it
- raves
- Past
- raved
- Past participle
- raved
- -ing form
- raving
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“Raving mad; his head becomes weaker.
“I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.” As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree.
It was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: even then she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself “Suppose it should be raving mad after all!
The doctor most kindly took charge of me, and it was well he did so, for I had a fit in the station, and before we reached home I was practically a raving maniac.
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