Definition of Rampant

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Rampant

Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.

Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.

Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.

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Rampant Quotations

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
Vernor Vinge

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.
Reggie White

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
Bill Condon

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
Jonathan Miller

Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?
Tom Coburn

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
Paul Berg

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
Powell Clayton

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
Karen Black

Rampant Translations

rampant in Italian is selvaggio
rampant in Spanish is caza
rampant in Swedish is frodig, vild

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