raving

Verb

rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)

1. (intransitive) To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
   • Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 47
2. (intransitive) To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
   • "She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

   Synonyms:

   rant

3. (intransitive, "of", "for", "against" or (formerly) "on") To talk or otherwise express oneself with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
   • He raved about her beauty.
4. (transitive) To speak (a message) with intense enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
   • She raved that she must seek revenge against the wrongdoers.
5. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
   • Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave
     The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
6. (intransitive) To attend a rave (dance party).
   • The situation with Tommy's parents made me grateful my parents hadn't caught on to my partying that summer. How had I gotten away with raving every weekend, and sometimes on Thursday nights too?2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s

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