noun, verb
noun [usuallysing.] a sudden period of wild and violent behaviour, often causing damage and destruction:
Gangs of youths went on the rampage in the city yesterday. * A state of emergency was declared following overnight rampages by student demonstrators.
verb [V+adv./prep.] (of people or animals) to move through a place in a group, usually breaking things and causing damage:
Several thousand demonstrators rampaged through the centre of the city. * a herd of rampaging elephants
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rampage is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does rampage appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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