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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: violently angry and destructive behavior [syn: rampage, violent disorder] v
1: act violently, recklessly, or destructively

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (rampaged; rampaging) Etymology: Scots Date: 1808 to rush wildly about II. noun Date: 1861 a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior • rampageous adjective • rampageously adverb • rampageousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. 1 (often foll. by about) rush wildly or violently about. 2 rage, storm. --n. often wild or violent behaviour. Phrases and idioms: on the rampage rampaging. Derivatives: rampageous adj. rampager n. Etymology: 18th c., perh. f. RAMP(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rampage Ramp"age, n. [See Ramp, v.] Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [Prov. or Low.] --Dickens.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rampage Ramp"age, v. i. To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage. [Prov. or Low]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rampaging, rampaged) 1. When people or animals rampage through a place, they rush about there in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction. Hundreds of youths rampaged through the town, shop windows were smashed and cars overturned... He used a sword to try to defend his shop from a rampaging mob. VERB: V adv/prep, V-ing 2. If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction. The prisoners went on the rampage destroying everything in their way. PHRASE: v PHR, v-link PHR

Moby Thesaurus

ado, agitation, amok, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, berserk, binge, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry on, commotion, crazy, destroy, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embroilment, excitement, fling, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fury, fuss, go berserk, go on, hammer, hassle, helter-skelter, hubbub, lay waste, loot, mad, maul, melee, mug, orgy, out of control, pell-mell, pillage, pother, racket, rage, ramp, rant, rape, rave, recklessness, riot, roar, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruin, rumpus, run amok, sack, savage, scramble, shindy, slaughter, sow chaos, splurge, stir, storm, tear, tear around, terrorize, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar, vandalize, violate, wild, wreck