Spree vs Rampage - What's the difference?
spree | rampage |
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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As nouns the difference between spree and rampage
is that spree is a merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic while rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action.As a proper noun Spree
is a particular river that flows through Lusatia (eastern Germany) and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.As a verb rampage is
to move about wildly or violently.spree
English
Usage notes
Often preceded by the name of a certain activity to indicate a period of doing that activity whole-heartedly and continuously, e.g. shopping spree.Synonyms
* carousalDerived terms
* killing spree * shooting spree * shopping spreeAnagrams
* * *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.
