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raving

[ rey-ving ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

talking wildly; delirious; frenzied:
a raving maniac.
Informal. extraordinary or remarkable:
a raving beauty.

adverb

furiously or wildly:
a remark that made me raving mad.

noun

Usually ravings.
1. irrational, incoherent talk:
  Putting him in a straitjacket did not stop his ravings.
2. wildly extravagant or outrageous talk; bombast.

raving

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adjective

1. delirious; frenzied
2. ( as adverb )
  raving mad
informal.
(intensifier)
a raving beauty

noun

usually plural frenzied, irrational, or wildly extravagant talk or utterances

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Derived Forms

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Other Word Forms

��i�Բ�·�� adverb
�ܲ�·��i�Բ� adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of raving¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; rave ¹, -ing ¹, -ing ²

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Students soon began commenting on Cohen’s Instagram posts, raving about the course and asking when the next would be held.

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In an old gun barrel factory in Sheffield's industrial heartland, hundreds of people are raving under the fluorescent lights of Hope Works club for one of the last times before it closes.

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Opponents of fluoridation have played on paranoid fears for decades, but into the 1960s, these were popularly dismissed as ravings from fringe organizations.

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Even back in 2016, Trump was raving about how he loves "the poorly educated."

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Is it a case of rote journalistic convention that turns Trump’s demented ravings into something resembling the blandly acceptable “policy statements” of a typical gladhanding pol?

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