verb · transitive · rare

rave

rave · raves · raved · raving

быть в восторге от, расхваливать

rasen, toben, schwärmen, raven

To be mentally unclearTo be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.

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/ɹeɪv/

» Have you gone stark raving mad?

Meaning

8 senses

(intransitive)To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
(intransitive)To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
toben, rasen
(intransitive)To talk or otherwise express oneself with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
He raved about her beauty.
schwärmen, phantasieren
расхва́ливатьrasxválivatʹ, быть в восто́рге отbytʹ v vostórge ot
(transitive)To speak (a message) with intense enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
She raved that she must seek revenge against the wrongdoers.
(intransitive)To attend a rave (dance party).
raven
participate in an all-night techno dance party
(Newfoundland, Scotland, intransitive)To wander or roam.
(Newfoundland, Scotland, intransitive)To stray or err.
(obsolete)To rush wildly or furiously.

Examples

40 sentences

Have you gone stark raving mad?
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Has everyone gone stark-raving mad?
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Tom has gone stark raving mad.
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This restaurant lives up to all the rave reviews it got.
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Tom is stark raving mad.
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Translations

5 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion; followed by about:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

to speak or write incoherently:

to talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion; followed by about:

to attend a rave:

Origin

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove.

From northern Middle English raven, from Old Norse ráfa (“to wander, roam”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Perhaps from a dissimilation of Proto-Germanic *wab(b)ōną (“to sway, waver, swing, shake, wobble, totter, reel, careen”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move, swarm, waft”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk rava (“to wander, be delirious”). Doublet of rove.

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Forms

raves, raving, raved, raved

Base form	rave · to rave
3rd person singular	raves
Present participle	raving
Past simple	raved
Past participle	raved

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	rave
he, she, it	raves

Past simpleLesson

all persons

raved

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have raved
he, she, it	has raved

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will rave

Synonyms

16 synonyms

rant craze have a screw loose have bats in one's belfry nut out nut uphave a kangaroo loose in the top paddockhave bats in the belfryhave squirrels in the attichave toys in the attic

Close in meaning

praise enthusiastically:gush
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner:rant mouth off jabber spout rabbit on

Word family

Derivedoutrave

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle

Collocations

4 patterns

stark raving raving
raving raving mad
raving raving
stark raving