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单词 rampageous
释义

rampage

1 of 2

verb

ram·​page ˈram-ˌpāj How to pronounce rampage (audio)
(ˌ)ram-ˈpāj
rampaged; rampaging

intransitive verb

: to rush wildly about

rampage

2 of 2

noun

ram·​page ˈram-ˌpāj How to pronounce rampage (audio)
: a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior
rampageous
ram-ˈpā-jəs How to pronounce rampage (audio)
adjective
rampageously adverb
rampageousness noun

Synonyms

Noun

  • agitation
  • deliriousness
  • delirium
  • distraction
  • fever
  • feverishness
  • flap
  • frenzy
  • furor
  • furore
  • fury
  • hysteria
  • rage
  • uproar
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Example Sentences

Verb Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city. Noun some crazy guy went on a rampage in the public library and started grabbing books off the shelves and tossing them around
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
For years, Russia has aggressively and recklessly mounted digital attacks against Ukraine, causing blackouts, attempting to skew elections, stealing data, and releasing destructive malware to rampage across the country—and the world. Wired, 5 July 2022 Utah lawmakers are looking at officially ending Test to Stay, a mandatory testing program for schools experiencing coronavirus outbreaks, as long as COVID-19 continues to rampage through the state’s population. Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022 Lewis’ account then becomes a maddening page-turner, as politics, optics and profits thwart our heroes and allow the virus to rampage. Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021 Professor Ferguson said the decision to scrap restrictions in England was motivated by the determination of politicians to return to normal, not to build up immunity by allowing the virus to rampage through the population. New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021 The reports were followed by rumors, inflated in the retelling, of protesters planning to rampage through towns along I-70, fears that proved unfounded. Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2021 There's no telling how long demand will outpace supply, especially as the pandemic continues to rampage through some of the world's biggest economies. Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021 There's no telling how long demand will outpace supply, especially as the pandemic continues to rampage through some of the world's biggest economies. Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021 There's no telling how long demand will outpace supply, especially as the pandemic continues to rampage through some of the world's biggest economies. Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
Noun
Memphis shooting spree suspect Ezekiel Kelly, who police say shot seven people in an hours-long rampage Wednesday, killing four, had been charged with a shooting involving three victims in 2020, court documents show. Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2022 Fears ran high Tuesday on an Indigenous reserve in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, as police warned residents that the suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage over the weekend might be nearby. Rob Gillies And Robert Bumsted, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022 Defense lawyers are delving into the defendant’s past to drum up sympathy to counter the prosecution’s case for the death penalty — 17 murders committed in a six-minute rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018. Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022 But the constitutional project was introduced only because militants, anarchists and criminals were burning, looting and vandalizing the country in a rampage, begun in October 2019, that the government was at a loss to contain. Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022 Twenty-three people were killed in the rampage, including a man who died months later as a result of his injuries, and 26 people were injured. Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022 Mayah Zamora was the last victim to be released from the hospital after being injured in the May 24 shooting rampage that killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 29 July 2022 Alan Eugene Miller, 57, a truck driver convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting rampage more than two decades ago is set to be put to death on Sept. 22, the Alabama Supreme Court said. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022 A year later, a man went on a highway shooting rampage in the West Texas oil patch that left seven people dead, spraying bullets into passing cars and shopping plazas and killing a U.S. Postal Service employee while hijacking her mail truck. Paul J. Weber, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Verb

originally Scots, probably an extension of ramp "to rage, storm about" (going back to early Scots and Middle English, "to rear up on the hind legs"), with a termination of uncertain origin — more at ramp entry 4

Note: The Scottish National Dictionary regards rampage as a blend of ramp "to rage, storm about" and rage (see rage entry 2); the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, on the other hand, hypothesizes "perhaps ramp [the verb] + -age [the suffix -age]. As the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, points out, the original place of stress (and concomitantly the pronunciation) are unknown.

Noun

noun derivative of rampage entry 1

First Known Use

Verb

1692, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1861, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

rampage

noun

ram·​page ˈram-ˌpāj How to pronounce rampage (audio)
: a period or instance of violent action or behavior

rampageous

adjective

as in rowdyish

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • rowdyish
  • roisterous
  • riotous
  • carnival
  • boisterous
  • rowdy
  • raucous
  • raffish
  • ruffianly
  • callithumpian
  • carnivalesque
  • rambunctious
  • rollicking
  • robustious
  • violent
  • uncontrolled
  • uncontrollable
  • knockabout
  • uninhibited
  • rumbustious
  • unmanageable
  • turbulent
  • larrikin
  • intractable
  • recalcitrant
  • tempestuous
  • hell-raising
  • exuberant
  • stormy
  • unrestrained
  • ungovernable
  • undisciplined
  • impassioned
  • unruly
  • headstrong
  • obstreperous
  • bubbly
  • unreserved
  • vivacious
  • effervescent
  • wild
  • buoyant
  • lively
  • vociferous
  • willful
  • wilful
  • sprightly
  • noisy
  • yelling
  • screaming
  • strident
  • howling
  • loudmouthed
  • clamorous
  • openmouthed
  • rackety
  • high-spirited

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • proper
  • solemn
  • silent
  • quiet
  • somber
  • peaceful
  • restrained
  • sombre
  • sober
  • controlled
  • tranquil
  • reasonable
  • orderly
  • collected
  • staid
  • dignified
  • sedate
  • inhibited
  • serene
  • subdued
  • composed
  • calm
  • decorous
  • noiseless
  • moderate
  • seemly
  • unruffled
  • hushed
  • constrained
  • unflappable
  • imperturbable
  • placid
  • depressed
  • repressed
  • phlegmatic
  • stoic
  • stoical
  • soundless
  • indifferent
  • temperate
  • detached
  • impassive
  • stolid
  • aloof
  • self-controlled
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