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