"raged" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an action verb meaning “have expressed strong anger or become violent” or “move with great force”. Example: The storm raged all night long, shaking the trees and flooding the streets.
And over time, some folks who were Ba'athists became more and more Islamist and the insurgency raged.
I stayed as strong as I could while the storm raged, but months later, when it had all subsided, I fell apart.
The debate between the two raged briefly, but six months on there is no doubt which side are in the ascendant.
It might have been a while since wild parties raged into the night or naked bodies hauled themselves on to the hot stones at the water's edge.
In the west, of course, firestorms raged: the biggest fire in New Mexico history, and the most destructive in Colorado's annals.
A debate has raged over whether the electoral commission is sufficiently well-prepared, with the incumbent party, which has greater access to Nigeria's dwindling petrodollars, pushing for a postponement.
Its author raged at the "excessively harsh sentences imposed on these boys".
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee raged at those on Capitol Hill who were willing to cut social security and Washington politicians who he said were "breaking their promises" to veterans.
He wrote about guilt and sin, raged about indignities and poked back at the hypocrisy of the prisoner's dubious ethical code ("I have seen sex offenders attacked. Almost always they're the weaker ones. I've seen big, muscular and capable rapists walk the landings with impunity").
The real heat of tribal animosity was certainly still in evidence in the 1980s when the so-called "hip-hop wars" raged within the offices of influential music magazine NME.
Unfortunately, the only help she was off to seek was financial as she begged the whole village for cash before storming into The Woolpack and covering Marlon in chips as she raged.
