RAMPAGE


Meaning of RAMPAGE in English

Pronounced /ræmpeɪdʒ/ for meaning 1, and /ræmpeɪdʒ/ for meaning 2.

( rampaging, rampaged)

1.

When people or animals rampage through a place, they rush about there in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.

Hundreds of youths rampaged through the town, shop windows were smashed and cars overturned...

He used a sword to try to defend his shop from a rampaging mob.

VERB : V adv / prep , V-ing

2.

If people go on the rampage , they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.

The prisoners went on the rampage destroying everything in their way.

PHRASE : v PHR , v-link PHR

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