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the body's emergency broadcast, lit before reason gets the memo
means Intense, overpowering anger — or, in slang, to celebrate or party with wild abandon.
from From Old French 'rage' (madness, fury), descending from Latin 'rabies' — yes, the same word for the disease, which literally meant 'madness' or 'frenzy.' That Latin root is possibly related to a Proto-Indo-European base suggesting violence or fury, the same family that gave us 'rabid.' So the word has always carried that animal edge: not mere irritation but something that takes you over, the way the disease overtakes a beast.
- speed
- amygdala fires before conscious thought arrives
- chemistry
- adrenaline and cortisol flood the bloodstream instantly
- strength
- hysterical strength lets people lift cars briefly
- health
- chronic anger raises heart attack risk
- origin
- Latin rabies, the same root as rabid
zidane headbutt materazzi — zinedine zidane headbutted marco materazzi in 2006 world cup final
tennis racket smashing — djokovic, mcenroe, and others have destroyed dozens of rackets mid-match