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rampage
[ noun ram-peyj; verb ram-peyj, ram-peyj ]
noun
- violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.
- a state of violent anger or agitation:
The smallest mistake sends him into a rampage. The river has gone on a rampage and flooded the countryside.
rampage
verb
- intr to rush about in an angry, violent, or agitated fashion
noun
- angry or destructive behaviour
- on the rampagebehaving violently or destructively
Derived Forms
- ˈrampager, noun
- ramˈpageous, adjective
- ramˈpageously, adverb
- ramˈpageousness, noun
Other Words From
- ram·pager noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of rampage1
Idioms and Phrases
see on a rampage .Example Sentences
They were even escorted down the steps of the Capitol when they were finished with their rampage.
As traders on Reddit’s WallStreetBets channel extol each other to send GameStop shares into the stratosphere, questions are growing about whether the rampage has crossed a line into stock manipulation.
Though the rioters had planned their rampage on the Capitol on the dark web and social media, the Capitol Police offered little resistance to their entering the building.
Many who took part in the rampage at the Capitol came equipped with powerful symbols emblazoned on flags, banners and t-shirts.
The rampage came after workers at the Narasapura plant were underpaid for months.
Earlier that day, officials say, Stone went on a bloody rampage killing six of his kin and wreaking havoc in three small towns.
Following his rampage, Courture-Rouleau was shot and killed.
ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq.
As the opening rampage stretches into hours, a question arises: Where is help?
After the rampage, Demetrius Hewlin, 16, Daniel Parmertor, 16, and Russell King Jr., 17, lay dead.
These are the days when the cattle become discontented with their pasture and begin to go on a rampage.
Buckley ought to have killed that bull long ago—that's the second time he's gone on a rampage.
One night a bear got in there and made such an awful noise that we thought the Indians were on a rampage.
The next time she starts in on any such rampage, just pick her up and carry her out, as any naughty child should be carried.
Out of the sun they had come like so many crazed hornets on the rampage.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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