rampantadjective
uk/ˈræm.pənt/us/ˈræm.pənt/rampant adjective (INCREASING)
(of something bad) getting worse quickly and in an uncontrolled way:
rampant corruption
Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
He said that he had encountered rampant prejudice in his attempts to get a job.
Disease is rampant in the overcrowded city.
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Uncontrolled
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- amok
- amuck
- cut loose idiom
- extravagant
- intemperate
- like mad idiom
- mad
- maniacal
- out of hand idiom
- raw
- rebellious
- spin
- spiral
- tearaway
- unbridled
- unchecked
- uncontrollable
- unmanageable
- wildfire
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rampant adjective (STANDING)
[ after noun ] (of an animal represented on a coat of arms) standing on its back legs with its front legs raised:
a lion rampant
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Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- cross-legged
- crouch
- four
- pew
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- seated
- seating
- sit back
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
- weight
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