单词 | rampage |
释义 | rampage From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrampageram‧page1 /ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræmpeɪdʒ/ verb [intransitive]SDAMAGEto rush about in groups, acting in a wild or violent wayrampage through Drunken football fans rampaged through the streets.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusrampage• You know the ingredients: rustic setting, wizened Lothario, coltish Romany beauty, rampaging passion, frightened sheep etc.• For example, the challenging, rampaging storms of Turner's seascapes are, like most romantic paintings, energetically anticlockwise.• The Orcs rampaged through Solland for weeks, burned and looting, until turning north once more towards Altdorf.• Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.rampage through• Anti-government demonstrators rampaged through the capital today.rampagerampage2 noun → on the rampageExamples from the Corpusrampage• It went on a rampage and mercilessly drilled another robot.• 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.• Until his rampage, Hamilton operated a club for elementary schoolboys in space rented at Dunblane High School.• Second-placed Cardiff went on the rampage, crossing for six tries in an impressive 39-3 demolition of Newport at Rodney Parade.• So we went on the rampage.• So long as radicals were on the rampage, staying in the centre meant leaning ever farther towards liberal reform.Origin rampage1 (1700-1800) Perhaps from ramp “to act or move wildly” ((14-21 centuries)), from French ramper; → RAMPANT |
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