rampage
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈɹæmpeɪd͡ʒ//
A course of violent, frenzied action.
noun
- 1
A course of violent, frenzied action.
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.
- 2
Wild partying, typically a drinking binge
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.
Etymology
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.
verb
- 1
To move about wildly or violently.
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.
Forms
- plural
- rampages
- past tense
- rampaged
- past participle
- rampaged
- present participle
- rampaging
- third person singular
- rampages
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