Rampage

Quick meaning: Rampage is a noun meaning A course of violent, frenzied action.

Meaning

A course of violent, frenzied action.

More Meanings

1. Wild partying, typically a drinking binge
2. To move about wildly or violently.

Example Sentences

Great card he was. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a Sunday morning, the landlady's two hats pinned on his head. Out on the rampage all night.

In the hip science of ultrasmall nanotechnology, fantastical future possibilities like rampaging nanorobots capture the most attention, but the first fruits of the field have been more mundane: tiny bits of mostly ordinary stuff that just sit there.

Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.

Word Forms

• rampages
• rampaging
• rampaged

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unrest, riot, mayhem, mess, free-for-all, chaos.

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