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UK
/ɹæmpˈeɪdʒəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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displaying raging violence; often destructive
the hot rampageous horses of my will
How To Use rampageous In A Sentence
- 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
- There's something about a rampageous woman flashing men that resonates with power.
- The ‘hot rampageous horses of my will’ clearly alludes to Socrates' palinode in The Phaedrus, but Auden, in contrast to Socrates, speaks of at least two unruly horses.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Questions arise as to rampageous warlords when discussing a country without a central government. Somalia Ruined: Intervention Fails Again « Antiwar.com Blog
- For the Gallic _bébé_ certainly seems less "rampageous" than the English urchin. Children's Books and Their Illustrators
- It must be admitted that the criminal classes are very rampageous in The Golden Chersonese and the way thither