raving

[US]/'reɪvɪŋ/
[UK]/'revɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. speaking or behaving in an irrational or wildly enthusiastic way; furious.

Phrases & Collocations

raving lunatic

raving review

raving party

rave about

rave review

Example Sentences

the ravings of a madwoman.

you're stark raving bonkers!.

she'd never been a raving beauty.

Nancy's having hysterics and raving about a black ghost.

He stood there for about twenty minutes ranting and raving about the colour of the new paint.

Are you stark raving mad, jumping off a moving train?

When I told her I’d crashed her car, she went stark raving bonkers.

Real-world Examples

Then what are you raving about?

Source: Game of Thrones (Season 1)

" Didn't I tell you this nutter was just raving as usual? "

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

She came back raving about crazy things.

Source: English little tyrant

This woman is raving mad. Believe me.

Source: "Father in the Time" Original Soundtrack

It wasn't me she was raving at. It was the old Charlie.

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Maybe you went to a restaurant that all of your friends were raving about.

Source: Emma's delicious English

Just before Captain Leclere began raving from his fever, he had ordered the stop.

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo: Selected Edition

He was raving toward the end, so I gave the crew orders from then on.

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo: Selected Edition

As if everything Ove had said was nothing more than the inarticulate raving of a senile old man.

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

" You are raving, " said Professor McGonagall, superbly disdainful. " Potter, that concludes our careers consultation."

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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