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Rampage vs Riotous - What's the difference?

rampage | riotous |

As a noun rampage

is a course of violent, frenzied action.

As a verb rampage

is to move about wildly or violently.

As an adjective riotous is

having the characteristics of a riot.

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

    riotous

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • having the characteristics of a riot
  • causing, inciting or taking part in a riot
  • unrestrained and boisterous; degenerate or dissolute
  • Synonyms

    * ragmatical

    Derived terms

    * riotous living