RAMPAGE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rampage mean? 

• RAMPAGE (noun)
  The noun RAMPAGE has 1 sense:

1. violently angry and destructive behavior

  Familiarity information: RAMPAGE used as a noun is very rare.

• RAMPAGE (verb)
  The verb RAMPAGE has 1 sense:

1. act violently, recklessly, or destructively

  Familiarity information: RAMPAGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAMPAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Violently angry and destructive behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rampage; violent disorder

Hypernyms ("rampage" is a kind of...):

disturbance (the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rampage"):

wilding (an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women)

Derivation:

ramp (behave violently, as if in state of a great anger)

rampage (act violently, recklessly, or destructively)

rampageous (displaying raging violence; often destructive)

• RAMPAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rampage ... he / she / it rampages
Past simple: rampaged   
Past participle: rampaged   
-ing form: rampaging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act violently, recklessly, or destructively

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "rampage" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rampage"):

riot (take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

rampage (violently angry and destructive behavior)

 Context examples 

But unfortunately Demi's most unconquerable prejudice was against going to bed, and that night he decided to go on a rampage.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Unpredictable Uranus was on a rampage, and you might have felt broadsided by events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Theoretical models of this period predict that after the gas giants formed they rampaged through the Solar System, ejecting small rocky bodies from the inner Solar System to far-flung orbits at great distances from the Sun.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)