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rampageous - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Prov. or Low Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.
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adjective Violent and boisterous ; unruly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective
Etymologies
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From rampage + -ous . Originally Scottish.
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Examples
For the Gallic _bébé_ certainly seems less "rampageous " than the English urchin.
Children's Books and Their Illustrators Gleeson White 1874
"rampageous " sister and of her husband, the good, kind, honest Joe, and taken up to London, and brought up as a gentleman, and started in chambers in Barnard's Inn. All this is done through the instrumentality of Mr. Jaggers, a barrister in highest repute among the criminal brotherhood.
Life of Charles Dickens 1876
Questions arise as to rampageous warlords when discussing a country without a central government.
Somalia Ruined: Intervention Fails Again « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
In front of his desk sits a scale model of the animal that barged its way onstage during his rampageous 2007 production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros; next to it is a memento from Jerusalem.
Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011
Yes, you may hit him fair, and make him bleed, too; but, for all that, he is a lion — a mighty, conquering, generous, rampageous Leo Belgicus — monarch of his wood.
Roundabout Papers 2006
If eBay is the spawn of the next generation of dotcom boomers, perhaps it is appropriate that helping it along its wave of success is a battle-scarred veteran of the former, rampageous tech era.
Whitman Appoints Veteran Swan As EBay CFO 2006
It must be admitted that the criminal classes are very rampageous in
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
The house on my side has a magnificent view of the beautiful Hijan hills, down which a waterfall tumbles in a broad sheet of foam only half a mile off, and which breed a rampageous fresh breeze for a great part of the day.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
But the particular area occupied by the rampageous vines was previously covered with wattles and a great variety of more or less densely-foliaged shrubs, each of which would add its quota to the accumulation of fallen leaves and discarded fruit or shelly seed-husks, slow but certain of decay.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003
In my view bureaucratic murder according to pre-prepared lists and without trial is as evil as murder committed by rampageous soldiers hitting innocent civilians.
Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle': An Exchange Chomsky, Noam 1984
mollusque commented on the word rampageous
Palooka seems to like this word.
December 10, 2008