different between rampage vs ransack

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.

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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.

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Derived terms

• go on the rampage

Related terms

• ramp
• rampant

English

Etymology

From Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann (“house”) + saka (“search”); probably influenced by sack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ænsæk/
• Homophone: RANSAC

Verb

ransack (third-person singular simple present ransacks, present participle ransacking, simple past and past participle ransacked)

1. (transitive) To loot or pillage. See also sack.
2. (transitive) To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.

   • to ransack every corner of their […] hearts

3. (archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.
4. To violate; to ravish; to deflower.

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Noun

ransack (plural ransacks)

1. Eager search.
   • 1861, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

     Perhaps this stone also will turn up in the ransack of the sultan's treasury.

Anagrams

• rackans