rampage

English

From Scots rampage, equivalent to ramp +‎ -age. Perhaps influenced by Middle English rampnen (“to force, ram”), from Old English *hrampian, from Proto-West Germanic *hrampōn (“to obstruct, hinder”), see ramp.

rampage (plural rampages)

A course of violent, frenzied action.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in 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.
Wild partying, typically a drinking binge
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
  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.

a course of violent, frenzied action

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: буйство (bg) n (bujstvo)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 狂暴 (zh) (kuángbào), 橫行 / 横行 (zh) (héngxíng), 亂鬧 / 乱闹 (zh) (luànnào)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: riehuminen (fi), raivoaminen (fi), myllerrys (fi)
French: déchainement (fr) m, saccage (fr) m
Galician: boureo (gl) m, fanteira f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Randale (de) f, Wutanfall (de) m, Randalieren n
Italian: furia (it) f, follia (it) f, raptus (it) m
Japanese: 大暴れ (ja) (Dai abare)
Khmer: ការផ្ទុះឡើង (kaaphtuhlaəng)
Korean: 광란(狂亂) (ko) (gwangnan), 난무(亂舞) (ko) (nanmu)
Latin: furia f
Māori: hōkeka, tātāhautanga, tākahatanga
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: raptus m
Portuguese: alvoroço (pt) m, tumulto (pt) m
Russian: неи́стовство (ru) n (neístovstvo), бу́йство (ru) n (bújstvo), погро́м (ru) m (pogróm)
Slovak: divočenie
Spanish: tumulto (es), embestida (es) f, destrucción (es) f, devastación (es) f, arrasamiento (es) m, arrasadura (es) f
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: bạo lực (vi), cuồng nộ (vi)
Yiddish: וואַקכאַנאַליע f (vakkhanalye)

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

To move about wildly or violently.
- 2005 February 22, Kenneth Chang, “Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 February 2021:
  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.
- 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
  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.

to move about wildly or violently