rampage
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ram·page1 /ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræmpeɪdʒ/ verb [intransitiveI] SDAMAGEto rush about in groups, acting in a wild or violent way 横冲直撞rampage through Drunken football fans rampaged through the streets. 喝醉酒的足球迷在街上横冲直撞。
rampage• You know the ingredients: rustic setting, wizened Lothario, coltish Romany beauty, rampaging passion, frightened sheep etc.• For example, the challenging, rampaging storms of Turner's seascapes are, like most romantic paintings, energetically anticlockwise.• The Orcs rampaged through Solland for weeks, burned and looting, until turning north once more towards Altdorf.• In Gause, Texas, blacks rampaged through the city, destroying property.• Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen. rampage2 noun on the rampage DAMAGErushing about in a wild and violent way, often causing damage 横冲直撞 gangs of youths on the rampage 一伙伙横冲直撞的年轻人
Rioters went on the rampage through the town. 暴徒在镇上横冲直撞。
on the rampage• Rangers beat Celtic and those Cath'lics will be on the rampage.• Jaq scanned another swarm of these hybrids, on the rampage with guns and blades.• Richard, on the rampage, must be an appalling bore.• Second-placed Cardiff went on the rampage, crossing for six tries in an impressive 39-3 demolition of Newport at Rodney Parade.• Midway through the second half, Neath went on the rampage scoring another three tries in only eight minutes.• And then in the second half they went on the rampage.• So we went on the rampage.• So long as radicals were on the rampage, staying in the centre meant leaning ever farther towards liberal reform. Origin rampage1 (1700-1800) Perhaps from
ramp “to act or move wildly” ((14-21 centuries)), from
French ramper;
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