rampageverb [ I ]
uk/ræmˈpeɪdʒ/us/ræmˈpeɪdʒ/to go through an area making a lot of noise and causing damage:
The demonstrators rampaged through the town, smashing windows and setting fire to cars.
Several villages were destroyed by rampaging soldiers.
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Damaging and spoiling
- adulterate
- alloy
- at the expense of sb idiom
- at-risk
- bandh
- bang up sb/sth
- gild the lily idiom
- gloss
- gnaw
- gnaw away at sth
- go west idiom
- goonda
- poison
- ruin
- scourge
- shatter
- shoot sth up
- shred
- sour
- tell on sb
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rampagenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈræm.peɪdʒ/us/ˈræm.peɪdʒ/violent and usually wild behaviour:
Rioters went on a/the rampage through the city.
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Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
- strong-arm
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