Synonyms for raving

Grammar : Adj

Spell : rey-ving

Phonetic Transcription : ˈreɪ vɪŋ

Définition of raving

Origin : late 15c., "delirious, frenzied," present participle adjective from rave (v.); sense of "remarkable, fit to excite admiration" is from 1841, hence slang superlative use.

adj maniacal

Example sentences :

We put him to bed, and in a short time he wakened, raving with a fever on his brain.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

If I had pursued the matter, who knows but I might have been a raving maniac by this time.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

Coupeau was a raving madman, the same as one sees at the Charenton mad-house!
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

He was manacled and guarded as though he were a raving madman.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

Mary began to feel that she, too, was in danger of raving distraction.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

She was raving in delirium, and died without recognizing me.
Extract from : « Masterpieces of Mystery » by Various

I stopped my ears against his raving, but could not shut it out.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Shining Light » by Norman Duncan

Sooner or later I must go, or I shall become a raving maniac.
Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum

You may see how she has fascinated me, for I could go on raving about her for hours.
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

Thinking, too, of old Aleck Douglas and the things that he had said in his raving.
Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower

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