rampage

plural rampages

1. A course of violent, frenzied action.

   Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

   2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion

2. Wild partying, typically a drinking binge

   Great card he was. Waltzing in Stamer street with Ignatius Gallaher on a Sunday morning, the landlady's two hats pinned on his head. Out on the rampage all night.

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

present singular third person rampages · participle present rampaging · participle past rampaged · past rampaged

1. To move about wildly or violently.

   In the hip science of ultrasmall nanotechnology, fantastical future possibilities like rampaging nanorobots capture the most attention, but the first fruits of the field have been more mundane: tiny bits of mostly ordinary stuff that just sit there.

   2005 February 22, Kenneth Chang, “Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021

   1 more example

   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.

   2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian