Vocabulary
Rabid
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something.
Urdu meaning
غضبناک، دیوانہ، پاگال
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Louis Pasteur invented the vaccine for rabies, caused mainly by rabid dog bites, in 1885.
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Doggone morality
— 2025-12-26
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He was testing the vaccine for dogs when a nineyear-old boy from Alsace was mauled by a rabid dog.
Dawn Editorials —
Doggone morality
— 2025-12-26
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Ghalib said, `As the dogbitten fears water; I am terrified of the mirror, for I am man-bitten.` Rabid dogs and ideals remain our doggone problem.
Dawn Editorials —
Doggone morality
— 2025-12-26
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One can only hope that Lula`s model of a broad, barely ideological democracy, however flawed, will again trump the potentially rabid far-right alternative.
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Brazil`s unusual 9/11
— 2025-09-17
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They had stories they were meant to live out but could not because the men around them, rabid and foaming at the mouth, decided they would not.
Dawn Editorials —
No more hashtags
— 2025-06-21
Synonyms
extreme, fanatical, overzealous, over-enthusiastic, extremist, violent, maniacal,
Antonyms
moderate, liberal, half-hearted
Curator example
“the show’s small but rabid fan base”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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