Rampage vs Belligerent - What's the difference?
rampage | belligerent |
A course of violent, frenzied action.
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Engaged in warfare, warring.
Eager to go to war, warlike.
Of or pertaining to war.
(By extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
violently towards others.
A state or other armed participant in warfare
As nouns the difference between rampage and belligerent
is that rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action while belligerent is a state or other armed participant in warfare.As a verb rampage
is to move about wildly or violently.As an adjective belligerent is
engaged in warfare, warring.rampage
English
* (Running amok)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,
Verb
(rampag)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.
Derived terms
* go on the rampagebelligerent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (eager to fight) aggressive, antagonistic, bellicose, combative, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculentDerived terms
* belligerently * cobelligerentNoun
(en noun)- The U.N. sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents .