rampage
pronunciation
How to pronounce rampage in British English:
UK [ˈræmpeɪdʒ]
How to pronounce rampage in American English:
US [ˈræmˌpedʒ]
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- Noun:
- violently angry and destructive behavior
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- Verb:
- act violently, recklessly, or destructively
Word Origin
- rampage (v.)
- 1715, in Scottish, probably from Middle English verb ramp "rave, rush wildly about" (c. 1300), especially of beasts rearing on their hind legs, as if climbing, from Old French ramper (see ramp (n.1), also see rampant). Related: Rampaged; rampaging.
- rampage (n.)
- 1861, from rampage (v.).
Example
- 1. Scar has gone on a murderous goat-killing rampage .
- 2. The rampage comes just over two weeks after a man opened fire at a movie theater in aurora , colorado .
- 3. A 17-year-old gunman went on the rampage at his former high school in southern germany this morning , leaving 15 people dead and several others injured , before he was killed in a shootout with police .
- 4. I know it s just nice to get away from the kingdom problems and the wedding rampage your mother is on .
- 5. Earlier this week , in the sprawling black township of soweto outside johannesburg , an angry mob , unable to bear the cold any longer , went on the rampage , burning down the homes of two african national congress councillors and torching their cars in protest over the soaring cost of electricity .