rampage

English

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English ramp (“rave, rush wildly about”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French ramper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæmpeɪdʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

rampage (plural rampages)

1. 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.

Translations

a course of violent, frenzied action

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂暴 (zh) (kuángbào), 橫行／横行 (zh) (héngxíng), 横行 (zh) (héngxíng), 亂鬧／乱闹 (zh) (luànnào), 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
• 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: hōkeka, tātāhautanga, tākahatanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• 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)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

1. To move about wildly or violently.
   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     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.

Translations

to move about wildly or violently

• Bengali: উত্তেজিত বা উন্মাতাল আচরণ (uttejito ba unmatal acoron)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亂鬧／乱闹 (zh) (luànnào), 乱闹 (zh) (luànnào)

• Finnish: riehua (fi), raivota (fi), ottaa riskejä
• French: rager (fr)
• German: randalieren (de), toben (de), rasen (de), toben (de)
• Japanese: 暴れる (ja) (あばれる, abareru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: ferōciō
• Maori: tātāhau
• Portuguese: alvoroçar (pt), tumultuar
• Russian: неи́стовствовать (ru) impf (neístovstvovatʹ), бу́йствовать (ru) impf (bújstvovatʹ), бушева́ть (ru) impf (buševátʹ), свире́пствовать (ru) impf (svirépstvovatʹ), беси́ться (ru) impf (besítʹsja), бесчи́нствовать (ru) impf (besčínstvovatʹ)
• Spanish: arrasar (es)
• Slovak: divočiť sa, besnieť

Derived terms

• go on the rampage

Related terms

• ramp
• rampant