rampage

/ˈɹæmpeɪd͡ʒ/

rampage noun: a course of violent, frenzied action.

Noun

rampage (plural rampages)

A course of violent, frenzied action.
- Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
Wild partying, typically a drinking binge
- Great card he was. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a Sunday morning, the landlady's two hats pinned on his head. Out on the rampage all night.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

Verb

rampage (third-person singular simple present rampages, present participle rampaging, simple past and past participle rampaged)

To move about wildly or violently.
- In the hip science of ultrasmall nanotechnology, fantastical future possibilities like rampaging nanorobots capture the most attention, but the first fruits of the field have been more mundane: tiny bits of mostly ordinary stuff that just sit there.2005 February 22, Kenneth Chang, “Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021
- It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State...2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian

rampage meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

rampage in Bengali

to move about wildly or violently: উত্তেজিত বা উন্মাতাল আচরণ uttejito ba unmatal acoron

rampage in Malayalam

go on the rampage, riot, run riot: ഉഗ്രതകാട്ടുക, കലിതുള്ളുക, ക്ഷോഭിക്കുക, കുഴപ്പക്കാരനായിത്തീരുക, സംഘം ചേർന്ന് ആക്രമിക്കുക, അക്രമാസക്തമായി പെരുമാറുക

rampage in Kannada

ಎಗರಾಡು, ನುಗ್ಗು, ಕೆರಳಿ ಓಡಾಡು

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rampage in Vietnamese: bạo lực, cuồng nộ

Examples of rampage in a sentence

The rioters went on the rampage and wrecked the town hall.
A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.
It will take us weeks to recover from his rampaging.

All 28 example sentences with rampage

Forms of rampage

Noun
plural	rampages
Verb
third-person singular present	rampages
present participle	rampaging
past participle	rampaged
past	rampaged

Plural of rampage: rampages

Origin of rampage

From Scots rampage, equivalent to ramp + -age. Perhaps influenced by Middle English rampnen (“to force, ram”), from Old English *hrampian, from Proto-West Germanic *hrampōn (“to obstruct, hinder”), see ramp.

Words formed from rampage

rampager
go on the rampage
on the rampage
rampageous

Questions about rampage

What does rampage mean?: Rampage means a course of violent, frenzied action.
What is rampage in Tamil?: Rampage in Tamil is சூறையாடுதல், அட்டகாசம் செய். See Rampage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rampage?: Rampage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce rampage?: Rampage is pronounced /ˈɹæmpeɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of rampage?: The plural of rampage is rampages.

Words near rampage in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: rampage (page history and authors); rampage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rampage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); rampage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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