Frenzy vs Rampage - What's the difference?
frenzy | rampage |
A state of wild activity or panic.
A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
* Addison
* William Shakespeare, ''A midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, scene 1:
(obsolete) Mad; frantic.
* 1678 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress :
(uncommon) To render frantic.
A course of violent, frenzied action.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
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, chapter=1 To move about wildly or violently
* 2014 , Ian Black, "
As nouns the difference between frenzy and rampage
is that frenzy is a state of wild activity or panic while rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action.As verbs the difference between frenzy and rampage
is that frenzy is (uncommon) to render frantic while rampage is to move about wildly or violently.As an adjective frenzy
is (obsolete) mad; frantic.frenzy
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Alternative forms
* phrenzy, phrensy (obsolete)Noun
(frenzies)- She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.
- All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
- The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.
Derived terms
* feeding frenzyAdjective
(en adjective)- They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.
Verb
External links
* * *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.