Definition

1. Noun:

   • Violently angry and destructive behavior: A period of wild, violent, and uncontrollable behavior, often causing damage or destruction.

2. Verb:

   • To act violently, recklessly, or destructively: To rush about in a wild, furious, and often destructive manner.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • The protesters went on a rampage through the city center, breaking windows and setting fires.
  • The escaped elephant went on a rampage, terrifying villagers and trampling crops.

• Verb:

  • The rioters rampaged through the streets, looting shops.
  • After the championship win, fans rampaged across the campus in celebration, causing minor damage.

Advanced Usage

• "to be on the rampage": To be engaged in a period of violent and destructive behavior.
  • The bull was on the rampage after escaping from the pen.
• "to go on a rampage": To start behaving in a violently destructive way.
  • The hacker went on a rampage, deleting files from the company's servers.

Variants and Related Words

• Rampaging (adj): Behaving in a violently destructive way.
  • The rampageing mob was finally brought under control by the police.

Synonyms

• Noun: Frenzy, fury, destruction, violence, tumult.
• Verb: Riot, run amok, run riot, storm, rage.

Related Phrases

• "Rampage through" (phrasal verb): To move through a place violently causing destruction.
  • The storm rampaged through the coastal town, leaving a path of devastation.

Noun

1. violently angry and destructive behavior

Verb

1. act violently, recklessly, or destructively