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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rampage
I.verb
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▪ For example, the challenging, rampaging storms of Turner's seascapes are, like most romantic paintings, energetically anticlockwise.
▪ Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.
▪ In Gause, Texas, blacks rampaged through the city, destroying property.
▪ The Orcs rampaged through Solland for weeks, burned and looting, until turning north once more towards Altdorf.
▪ You know the ingredients: rustic setting, wizened Lothario, coltish Romany beauty, rampaging passion, frightened sheep etc.
II.noun
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▪ Dietz pointed to testimony by a psychiatrist who examined Davis after his three-county rampage in 1976 as critical in the case.
▪ Financially secure for the first time, Gamble and Huff went on a creative rampage.
▪ It went on a rampage and mercilessly drilled another robot.
▪ Second-placed Cardiff went on the rampage, crossing for six tries in an impressive 39-3 demolition of Newport at Rodney Parade.
▪ So long as radicals were on the rampage, staying in the centre meant leaning ever farther towards liberal reform.
▪ So we went on the rampage.
▪ Until his rampage, Hamilton operated a club for elementary schoolboys in space rented at Dunblane High School.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rampage

Rampage \Ramp"age\ (r[a^]mp"[asl]j; 48), n. [See Ramp, v.] Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [Prov. or Low]
--Dickens.

Rampage

Rampage \Ramp"age\, v. i. To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage. [Prov. or Low]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rampage

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

1861, from rampage (v.).

Wiktionary
rampage

n. A course of violent, frenzied action. vb. To move about wildly or violently

WordNet
rampage

v. act violently, recklessly, or destructively

rampage

n. violently angry and destructive behavior [syn: violent disorder]

Wikipedia
Rampage

Rampage may refer to:

  • Dodge Rampage, a subcompact, unibody pickup truck
  • Rampage (rapper) (born 1974), American rapper
  • Rampage (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster formerly located at Alabama Adventure
  • Rampage (series), a video game series
    • Rampage (video game), a 1986 arcade game and the first game in the Rampage series
  • Rampage Mountain, a mountain in Montana

In media:

  • "Rampage", the penultimate episode of CSI: Miamis fourth season
  • Rampage, a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero franchise
  • Rampage (1963 film), a 1963 American adventure film
  • Rampage (1986 film), a 1986 Turkish action film, also known as Korkusuz and unofficially as Turkish Rambo
  • Rampage (1987 film), a 1987 American crime-drama film featuring a serial killer
  • Rampage (2006 film), a 2006 documentary by George Gittoes following the lives of three brothers living in Miami
  • Rampage (2009 film), a 2009 thriller film by Uwe Boll
  • Rampage (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Rampage (DC Comics), a DC Comics superheroine
  • "Rampage" (song), a 1991 single by EPMD and LL Cool J
  • Rampage (Transformers), the name of several different fictional characters in the Transformers universes
  • Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, a 2006 direct-to-video film about the real life Hillside Strangler murders
  • Rampage, two comics, a weekly and a monthly, released by Marvel UK

In sports:

  • Grand Rapids Rampage, an Arena Football League team
  • Rampage (mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Los Angeles Rams
  • San Antonio Rampage, an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League
  • Quinton Jackson (born 1978; nicknamed "Rampage"), American mixed martial artist and actor
  • Red Bull Rampage, an invite-only free-ride mountain bike competition held near Zion National Park in Virgin, Utah, USA, just to the north of Gooseberry Mesa.
Rampage (video game)

Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Players take control of gigantic monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is completed when a particular city is completely reduced to rubble. Warner Bros. currently owns all rights to the property.

Rampage (1987 film)
''For the 1963 adventure film starring Robert Mitchum, see Rampage.''

Rampage is a 1987 American crime drama film written, produced and directed by William Friedkin. The film stars Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, and Nicholas Campbell.

Rampage (rapper)

Roger McNair (born August 1, 1974), better known by his stage name Rampage is an American rapper who is a member of the Flipmode Squad. He is a long-time collaborator with his cousin Busta Rhymes.

Rampage (2006 film)

Rampage is a 2006 documentary by Australian war artist, George Gittoes. It is a sequel to his previous documentary, Soundtrack to War. The film follows the lives of three brothers living in Miami's notorious brown sub ghettos.

Hip hop performers Swizz Beatz, Fat Joe and DJ Kaleb appear in the film.

Rampage (roller coaster)

Rampage is a wooden roller coaster located at Alabama Splash Adventure in Bessemer, Alabama. It initially operated from 1998 to 2011. On March 15, 2014, shortly after an announcement that the park had been purchased by its current management, ( Koch Family Parks of Holiday World & Splashin' Safari), it was announced that the coaster would be refurbished and reopened as the cornerstone of the reopening of the non-water park areas of the theme park.

Rampage (DC Comics)

Rampage (real name Karen Lou "Kitty" Faulkner) is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. The character first appeared in Superman comic books, and was later utilized in Starman. Rampage has a distinct appearance, with orange skin, a towering, muscular build, and a fiery red mohawk. Rampage's personality is (like her namesake) hot-tempered, aggressive, and uninhibited, the complete opposite of her alter ego Kitty Faulkner.

Rampage (Marvel Comics)

Stuart Clarke is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe, an ex- supervillain who first fought as Rampage against the short-lived Champions team. He is an ally of the Punisher, replacing Microchip.

Rampage (series)

Rampage is a series of video games released by Midway for various consoles. The basic premise of the series is that, due to a lab accident, the player controls a human transformed into a giant monster. The game-play revolves around using your monster to destroy cities around the world while attacking or avoiding police and military forces.

The most recent "Rampage" game is the Wii version of "Rampage: Total Destruction" which was released on November 19, 2006 (nearly nine months after the original GameCube, PS2 video game release of the same name).

As of 2013, it is unknown whether or not there will be a sixth installment, a second spin-off, or anything in that matter. However, it has been announced that a theatrical film adaptation is under works at New Line Cinema.

Rampage (1986 film)

Rampage (; Lit.: Fearless) is a 1986 Turkish cult action film, written and directed by Çetin Inanç, featuring bodybuilder Serdar Kebapçılar as a Turkish commando who must infiltrate and capture a group of terrorists living in the mountains. The film is the second of two films, along with Wild Blood (Turkish: Vahşi Kan; 1983) also written and directed by Çetin İnanç, commonly known as Turkish Rambo because of plot and stylistic similarities copied from George P. Cosmatos’s Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). It is also available in an English dubbed U.S. theatrical release produced by Ed Glaser.

Rampage (1963 film)

Rampage is a 1963 adventure film about big game hunters set in Malaysia and starring Robert Mitchum, Jack Hawkins, and Elsa Martinelli. The film was directed by Phil Karlson, features a musical score by Elmer Bernstein and was based on the novel by Alan Caillou published in 1961.

Rampage (2009 film)

Rampage is a 2009 mass murder thriller film directed by Uwe Boll and starring Brendan Fletcher, Michael Paré, Shaun Sipos and Lynda Boyd. Rampage received a theatrical release in Germany, though was released direct-to-video in the rest of the world. It was Boll's first film to gain mainly positive reviews. A sequel, titled Rampage: Capital Punishment, was released on August 19, 2014.

Rampage (song)

"Rampage" (a.k.a. "Slow Down, Baby") is the second hit single released from EPMD's third album, Business as Usual. EPMD's new-found labelmate, LL Cool J contributed a verse on the song, while Pete Rock would provide the remix to the song. "Rampage" found its greatest success on the Rap charts, peaking at #2.

Rampage (mascot)

Rampage is the official mascot of the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. Introduced in July 2010, he is an anthropomorphic ram who wears a Rams jersey.

Usage examples of "rampage".

The autopsy revealed a small tumor in his hypothalamus, which some experts say could have contributed to his rampage, while others claim it could not.

In reality, the Tonton Macoutes carried away thousands of people in their bloody rampage.

Men cleaned their rifles, burnished their buttons and closed them to the neck, stubbed out their cigarettes and trembled a little while Castelani rampaged through the camp at Chaldi, dealing out duties, ferreting out the malingerers and stiffening spines with the swishing cane in his right hand.

What better way to symbolize the troubled birth of the new world age of Leo than to depict its harbinger as a rampaging lion, particularly since the Age of Leo coincided with the final ferocious meltdown of the last Ice Age, during which huge numbers of animal species all over the earth were suddenly and violently rendered extinct.

Monica had already told Ann about her own emotions, how intense everything had seemed when she was fourteen and in school, how un portant small details seemed back then when her hor mones were rampaging through her body for the first time.

We were shot out indiscriminately into the trickery of the slippery, rampaging decade, and the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like pangolins or armadillos and make sure that our soft underbellies were not exposed for either inspection or slaughter.

He felt the three ounces of Wild Turkey rampage into his gut and begin to resew the frayed nerves.

These were cannibal bats that rampaged among the roosting species, all of which were covered with tiny bloodsucking insects which themselves provided asylum for even smaller parasitic blood-fleas.

The Pasquinel brothers and their renegades knew how to slip through the flames, so even while Skimmerhorn was setting fire to the prairies, they rampaged up and down the Platte, burning farms and scalping the inhabitants.

The only reason that she had not done so before was that the little squits hid in every narrow little crevice and crack when the trolls went rampaging.

She could no longer trust a man who would let a monster go on living after so many had died under its trampling rampage.

Now their mouths were dry from the salt gunpowder of the car tridges they had bitten all morning and their battle had shrunk to a tenrif ing patch of foreign land that was surrounded by a victorious, rampaging, screaming enemy.

Burr who defeated Adams so much as the Federalist war faction and the rampaging Hamilton.

The rumble of heavy machinery, even the smell of meating men and animals, triggered mass assaults by the rampaging Africans, many of which bore deadly stings.

Nevertheless, the constant feasting and orgies of the rude Gallic troops at the sacrificial banquets were an ongoing scandal to the refined and delicate Antiochians, who night after night suffered drunken, carousing foreign soldiers rampaging through their streets, and were unable to hide their resentment.