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Berserk vs Rampage - What's the difference?

berserk | rampage |

As nouns the difference between berserk and rampage

is that berserk is a crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy while rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action.

As an adjective berserk

is injuriously, maniacally, or furiously violent or out of control.

As a verb rampage is

to move about wildly or violently.

berserk

English

Alternative forms

* beserk * berzerk * beresque – humorous misspelling now accepted (Australian )

Noun

(en noun)
  • A crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Injuriously, maniacally, or furiously violent or out of control.
  • * After he watched his sister stabbed to death, he went berserk and attacked the killer like a beast or a wild animal.

    • Derived terms

    * berserker

    See also

    *

    rampage

    English

    * (Running amok)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A course of violent, frenzied action.
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    • , 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

    Related terms

    * ramp * rampant