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Rampage vs Rowdy - What's the difference?

rampage | rowdy |

As nouns the difference between rampage and rowdy

is that rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action while rowdy is a boisterous person; a brawler.

As a verb rampage

is to move about wildly or violently.

As an adjective rowdy is

rough and disorderly; riotous or just boisterous.

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

    rowdy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rowdie

    Adjective

    (er)
  • rough and disorderly; riotous or just boisterous
  • Derived terms

    * rowdiness * rowdyism

    Noun

    (rowdies)
  • A boisterous person; a brawler.
  • Synonyms

    * (boisterous person) brawler, ruffian

    Anagrams

    * *