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ramping
Word definitions for ramping in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ramp \Ramp\ (r[a^]mp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ramped (r[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Ramping .] [F. ramper to creep, OF., to climb; of German origin; cf. G. raffen to snatch, LG. & D. rapen. See Rap to snatch, and cf. Romp .] To spring; to leap; to bound; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of ramp English)
Usage examples of ramping.
Access to these upper shelves was gained from balconies which, in their turn, were linked by an intricate arrangement of ramping walkways and stairways – straight stairways, spiralled stairways and strangely dog-legged stairways, all with uneven steps twisted by age and use and neglect.
Indeed it grew worse as the floor grew narrower and the scree-fringed sides became steeper, ramping darkly up to increasingly jagged ridges and peaks.
Thus, inexorably, they begin the desperate garnering of more power, the building of ramping towers and bulwarks, each both overreaching and over-burdening the last, futilely striving for that which cannot be attained until eventually the whole tumbles into destruction, overwhelmed by its own unrestrained weight.
Talma started, her heart ramping up a beat or two as a squirt of adrenaline coursed through her veins.
After much walking, turning always down the street which looked pleasantest, he came to an oval with a statue of a pompous personage on a ramping horse.
To his left, beyond the Bay to the west, the Ramping Sea lay sleeping.