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Rampage vs Stampede - What's the difference?

rampage | stampede |

As nouns the difference between rampage and stampede

is that rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action while stampede is stampede.

As a verb rampage

is to move about wildly or violently.

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

    stampede

    English

    (wikipedia stampede)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
    • She and her husband would join in the general stampede . -W. Black.
  • A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.
    • The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.

    Synonyms

    * (a wild running away) rush, flight * (an intensive movement of a crowd) crush, jam, trampling

    Verb

    (stamped)
  • To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
  • To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
  • *
    • "Cattle are usually quiet after dark. Still I've known even a coyote to stampede your white herd."

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