Rampage vs Ransack - What's the difference?
rampage | ransack |
A course of violent, frenzied action.
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, chapter=1 To move about wildly or violently
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(label) To loot or pillage. See also sack .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Their vow is made / To ransack Troy.
(label) To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
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*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:to ransack every corner of theirhearts
(label) To examine carefully; to investigate.
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*:Thenne came there an olde monke whiche somtyme had ben a knyghte & behelde syre Melyas / And anone he ransakyd hym / & thenne he saide vnto syr Galahad I shal hele hym of this wo?de by the grace of god within the terme of seuen wekes
To violate; to ravish; to deflower.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Rich spoil of ransacked chastity.
As verbs the difference between rampage and ransack
is that rampage is to move about wildly or violently while ransack is (label) to loot or pillage see also sack .As a noun rampage
is a course of violent, frenzied action.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.