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rampauge

rampauge is the obsolete form of rampage.

Meaning of rampage

Noun

rampage (plural rampages)

  1. 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
  2. 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

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Forms of rampauge

Noun
pluralrampauges
Verb
third-person singular presentrampauges
present participlerampauging
past participlerampauged
pastrampauged

Questions about rampauge

What is rampauge the obsolete form of?
Rampauge is the obsolete form of rampage.

Words near rampauge in the dictionary

  1. ramparted
  2. ramparting
  3. rampartless
  4. rampartlike
  5. ramparts
  6. rampauge
  7. rampauged
  8. rampauges
  9. rampauging
  10. rampaunt
  11. ramped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rampauge (page history and authors); rampage (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.

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