Terror vs Rampage - What's the difference?
terror | rampage |
(uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
(countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.
* 1794 , (William Godwin),
(uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
* 1921', (Edith Birkhead), ''The tale of '''terror : a study of the Gothic romance
(countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
* 1841 , (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
*
, title= A course of violent, frenzied action.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 To move about wildly or violently
* 2014 , Ian Black, "
As nouns the difference between terror and rampage
is that terror is terror while rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action.As a verb rampage is
to move about wildly or violently.terror
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Alternative forms
* terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)Noun
- The terrors with which I was seizedwere extreme.
- The terrors of the storm
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}
Derived terms
* terrorism * terrorist * terrorize, terrorized, terrorizing * reign of terrorSee also
* alarm * fright * consternation * dread * dismayExternal links
* * ----rampage
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* (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.
