rampage

English

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Etymology

From Middle English ramp (“rave, rush wildly about”), from Old French ramper.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹæmpeɪdʒ/ (noun)
• IPA: /ɹæmˈpeɪdʒ/ (verb)

  Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

rampage (plural rampages)

1. A course of violent, frenzied action.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion^[1]:

     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.

Translations

a course of violent, frenzied action

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂暴 (cmn) (kuángbào), 橫行 (cmn), 横行 (cmn) (héngxíng), 亂鬧 (cmn), 乱闹 (cmn) (luànnào)

• Finnish: riehuminen, raivoaminen, myllerrys
• French: déchainement (fr) m, saccage (fr) m

• German: Wutanfall (de) m, Randalieren (de) n
• Portuguese: alvoroço (pt) m, tumulto (pt) m
• Russian: неистовство (ru) (neístovstvo) n, буйство (ru) (bújstvo) n, погром (ru) (pogróm) m

Verb

rampage (third-person singular simple present rampages, present participle rampaging, simple past and past participle rampaged)

1. To move about wildly or violently

Translations

To move about wildly or violently

• Finnish: riehua (fi), raivota (fi)
• German: randalieren (de), toben (de)

• Russian: неистовствовать (ru) (neístovstvovatʹ), буйствовать (ru) (bújstvovatʹ), бушевать (ru) (buševátʹ)

Derived terms

• go on the rampage

Related terms

• ramp
• rampant