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Lynch vs Rampage - What's the difference?

lynch | rampage |

As a proper noun lynch

is .

As a noun rampage is

a course of violent, frenzied action.

As a verb rampage is

to move about wildly or violently.

lynch

English

(wikipedia lynch)

Etymology 1

First attested , from (Lynch law) that appeared in .

Verb

(es)
  • (pejorative) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.
  • Synonyms
    * (execute without a proper legal trial) string up
    Derived terms
    * lynching * lynch mob

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • English eponyms ----

    rampage

    English

    * (Running amok)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A course of violent, frenzied action.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,

    Verb

    (rampag)
  • To move about wildly or violently
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " 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 rampage