Rampage vs Ravage - What's the difference?
rampage | ravage |
A course of violent, frenzied action.
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, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 To move about wildly or violently
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To devastate or destroy something.
To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
To wreak destruction.
Grievous damage or havoc.
* Addison
Depredation or devastation
As nouns the difference between rampage and ravage
is that rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action while ravage is grievous damage or havoc.As verbs the difference between rampage and ravage
is that rampage is to move about wildly or violently while ravage is to devastate or destroy something.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 rampageravage
English
Verb
Noun
(en noun)- Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul?
- the ravage''' of a lion; the '''ravages''' of fire or tempest; the '''ravages of an army, or of time