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UK
/ɹˈeɪbɪd/
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[ US /ˈɹæbɪd, ˈɹeɪbɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæbɪd, ˈɹeɪbɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of or infected by rabies
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marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
rabid isolationist
How To Use rabid In A Sentence
- And maybe she used to be a Democrat (though my experience is that the coverted are always the most rabid). Hilary Rosen: Harriet and her Friend
- The numerous and lukewarm group outnumber the rabid partisans on both sides, though.
- She is as rabidly anti-smoking as only a recently cured addict can be.
- It turned out that the pork op-ed was something of a prelude to another, larger attack on the local/sustainable food movement: his recently published book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, in which he warns the reader of legions of rabid locavores who would build up irresponsible local food systems and disserve global ecology through their uber-local diets. Leslie Hatfield: Miles from Nowhere: Why Does James McWilliams Hate Local Food?
- In the long-day plant Arabidopsis, flowering is accelerated under photoperiods exceeding a critical daylength.
- Arabidopsis and synteny between soybean and Arabidopsis PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- He's on his way out, and, rabid dog that he is, it's no great surprise he's going out foaming all the way.
- Clinton did not mispeak, she was again misinterpreted by the rabid Obama fans that look for any excuse to criticize her campaign. Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment
- The governor's repeated claim that he will raise the issue of capital punishment during the 2004 session may be no more than a bone tossed to his more rabid supporters.
- The dicotyledonous annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana is widely used as a model organism to study how these different signals are integrated into a developmental response.