RAMPAGED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

rampaged

verb

past tense of rampage

as in ranted

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Comedian Matt Matthews recently ranted about pronouns, gender identity, and the LGBTQ community.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026
Membership was open to the lazy, the unemployed and anyone who mostly ranted.

— Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of ranted

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Nonetheless, many on the outside raved about Proctor’s first game.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
Delevingne is coming off raved about Cannes drama Club Kid, Worthington returned for the blockbuster Avatar franchise and Hemsworth last year had Netflix’s The Witcher.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of raved

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Lizárraga has carried on the legacy of his father, who passed away just as the band was arriving in Europe for the first time three decades ago.

— Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2026
The relationships off the field have carried on onto the field and therefore more time is being invested around each other, with each other.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of carried on

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Trump blustered and lied and displayed himself in the worst possible light, of course, but Reza Pahlavi, the Shah’s son who lives in the United States and who many Iranians had reluctantly come to regard as a possible leader, also played his hand extremely badly.

— Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 16 May 2026
Trump has blustered, contradicted himself publicly, ramped-up rhetorically and then backed down, mostly without receiving obvious concessions.

— Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026

Definition of blustered

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In his early films, Greene observed individuals who took on different, sometimes contradictory roles in their lives.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
The star of ‘Ripley’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ star steps up in a performance of emotional depth as Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who took on Hamlet at the end of his life.

— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of took on

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Some neighbors fulminated against the university, arguing that the extra events would bring more noise and traffic, and that the property tax-exempt institution would not pay its fair share.

— Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

Definition of fulminated

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While some members of Congress from both the Democratic and Republican parties have advocated for bills to check the progress of AI, Trump on Monday raged against growing calls for AI regulation.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Wildfires have raged, and tens of thousands of excess deaths, attributed to the succession of heatwaves, have been recorded across Europe.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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