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English

Etymology

French, from Latin ramus (“a branch”).

Adjective

ramage

1. (obsolete) wild; untamed

Noun

ramage

1. Boughs or branches.

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2. The warbling of birds in trees.

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Anagrams

• Gemara, Megara, megara

English

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Etymology

From Middle English ramp (“rave, rush wildly about”), from Old French ramper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmpe?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

rampage (plural rampages)

1. A course of violent, frenzied action.

Translations

Verb

rampage (third-person singular simple present rampages, present participle rampaging, simple past and past participle rampaged)

1. To move about wildly or violently.
   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.

Translations

Derived terms

• go on the rampage

Related terms

• ramp
• rampant