rampaged; rampaging
: to rush wildly about
: a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior
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Verb
Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.
Noun
some crazy guy went on a rampage in the public library and started grabbing books off the shelves and tossing them around
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
In one especially brutal atrocity last March, hard-line jihadists supposedly outside the Syrian government’s control rampaged through Alawite villages along Syria’s Mediterranean coast, killing hundreds of civilians, in retaliation for Assad loyalists attacking Syrian army positions.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Jurors entered their third week Monday deliberating the fate of Carlos Reales Dominguez, the former UC Davis student accused in a 2023 knife rampage that killed two men in Davis and nearly killed a woman experiencing homelessness.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2025
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Verb
Belanger was a World War II veteran who fought with ordinary distinction against a fascist German regime rampaging across Europe — one that launched its reign of terror with the 1933 burning of a homosexual’s library on a Berlin public square.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
In one especially brutal atrocity last March, hard-line jihadists supposedly outside the Syrian government’s control rampaged through Alawite villages along Syria’s Mediterranean coast, killing hundreds of civilians, in retaliation for Assad loyalists attacking Syrian army positions.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Noun
Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district of Akihabara in 2018.
—Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Jurors entered their third week Monday deliberating the fate of Carlos Reales Dominguez, the former UC Davis student accused in a 2023 knife rampage that killed two men in Davis and nearly killed a woman experiencing homelessness.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2025
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“Rampage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rampage. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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rampage
2 of 2 noun
ram·page
ˈram-ˌpāj 
: a course of violent or reckless action or behavior
rampageously
adverb
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