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Antonyms for rampaging

Grammar : Verb
Spell : noun ram-peyj; verb ram-peyj, ram-peyj
Phonetic Transcription : noun ˈræm peɪdʒ; verb ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræm peɪdʒ

Definition of rampaging

Origin :
  • 1715, in Scottish, probably from Middle English verb ramp "rave, rush wildly about" (c.1300), especially of beasts rearing on their hind legs, as if climbing, from Old French ramper (see ramp (n.1), also cf. rampant). Related: Rampaged; rampaging.
  • verb go crazy; storm
Example sentences :
  • Then I swung about to help Francois head off a bunch of rampaging steers.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie Mother » by Arthur Stringer
  • How safe are we now, with the Monaldeschi rampaging through the streets?
  • Extract from : « The Saracen: The Holy War » by Robert Shea
  • I thought a dragon must have been rampaging about the premises.
  • Extract from : « The Bushman » by Edward Wilson Landor
  • They aren't killers, or rampaging monsters; quite the contrary.
  • Extract from : « The Slizzers » by Jerome Bixby
  • A startling vigor, as if he had been changed into a rampaging giant, swept him as they kissed.
  • Extract from : « Gargoyles » by Ben Hecht
  • Now he shore was rampaging all over creation last night—he didn't have no dreams nor no sleep in that bunk last night, nohow.
  • Extract from : « Hopalong Cassidy » by Clarence E. Mulford
  • But don't ye go for to let that rampaging boy of our'n upsot the fat in the fire with any o' his foolishness.
  • Extract from : « The Master of Appleby » by Francis Lynde
  • Here, the combined conscious minds of the ten crew members were still strong enough to banish the rampaging hallucinations.
  • Extract from : « Subjectivity » by Norman Spinrad
  • And the chief, too, rampaging before the steam-gauge and carrying on like a lunatic up and down the engine-room ever since noon.
  • Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
  • No wonder we thought the Lucy Apse a dear, meek, little ship after getting clear of that big, rampaging savage brute.
  • Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad

Synonyms for rampaging

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