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Definition of rampant:

  • (adjective) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile
  • (adjective) unrestrained and violent; "rampant aggression"
  • (adjective) (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth; "a rampant growth of weeds"

Sentence Examples:

Perfectly hardy, and of free, almost rampant growth in any but the stiffest soils.

It is quite hardy and of rampant growth.

Curiosity was rampant on the point, and the refusals were few and far between.

"And my arms a lion rampant."

I never knew prejudice more rampant than it is at this hour.

What boots it to reason against such rampant affinities!

For hope was now rampant.

Anarchy and bloodshed are becoming rampant, all semblance of order is gone.

A lion rampant crowned ...

Discontent and disorder were rampant.

Speculation was rampant.

A weather-beaten sign with a red horse rampant swings at one corner of the main building.

I never regarded your imagination as rampant, Henry.

The whole was a sight to cheer the heart of rampant democracy.

It would not be surprising to find him rampant.

Death had stalked rampant.

Discord rampant.

This is not an age when enmity is very rampant.

She cried, terror rampant in her white face.

Labor politics were rampant.

Disease is rampant, especially on the smaller branches of the rivers.

Meanwhile, many innocent men were suspected, and gossip ran rampant.

A rampant ambition can be a torture to him.

What does she mean by getting off such rampant discourses?

She found Edith's rampant virtue a trifle wearing.

Idolatry and witchcraft are rampant.

The rampant deed contented.

Madness was creeping upon them rampant.

"I suggest the eagle rampant on a sausage!"

James saw for the first time in its entirety the trading instinct rampant.

They liked him for his bluff, John-Bullish, and rampant manner.

Mysticism became rampant.

Brian had suffered enough from self rampant in others.

"Crime sits rampant in your eyes."

One defeat of the Federal forces, and madness would be rampant here.

Again herself within herself was rampant, talking wildly.

She leaped up rampant against the cage.

We are suffering reverses on account of wickedness rampant in our land.

Everywhere I heard his voice; he was rampant.

Verse-writing is rampant.

Rampant was another of my "warnings."

Rampant, whom I used to know very well when we were young.

All kinds of fever became rampant, particularly malaria.

Are wars less bloody, or is crime less rampant?

Indians they were confident were rampant, and frantic for scalps.

The rampant roar of the river was quieting to the hollow hush.

In fact, his piety had an object, as piety of that rampant variety usually has.

Each animal has his back to the pool, and with one exception is in a rampant attitude.

The habit is rampant; it enjoys sunshine, but will do in partial shade.

It is much less rampant, and, perhaps, less hardy than the type.

Scurvy and other diseases were rampant.

Socialism became rampant.

Strikes were in progress everywhere, and disorder was rampant.

In the royal ships this design was of lions rampant, cut out of scarlet say.

Cattle versus sheep wars resulted, stealing became rampant and success impossible.

Sea sickness was rampant.

Shame rose rampant in the boy's breast.

It is rampant!

His dominant note of character is rampant enthusiasm.

Rampant Beef.

The theory of getting on in the world, every man for himself, became rampant.

Cruelty is innate in them, and vice and crime are everywhere rampant.

Glaring eastward from rocky summit is a "lion rampant."

And they were rips, even rampant, for a long "Recess" at Easter.

Crime of all sorts is rampant.

Two lions, or other animals of prey, rampant and face to face.

It's rampant in here, you see, in spite of the barrier of sand.

And was not the eagle rampant then?

Everywhere the weeds were rampant.

You were rampant on Uncle Tom.

It rears itself from the valleys, a dragon rampant and with horrid jaws.

They see vice more rampant than it was in the days of the Empire.

Nationalism suddenly became rampant.

And Deborah plunged round the corner of the house, rampant and full of corn.

Jingoism was rampant.

Learning was just naturally rampant out there.

Corruption was rampant, and the treasury issued large sums.

Wickedness is rampant.

Anarchy was rampant everywhere.

Everything useful was neglected, and speculation was rampant.

Third, corruption is rampant.

The superstition of the miner rose in him rampant.

She is simply letting that crazy imagination of hers run rampant.

Is suspicion so rampant in their ranks that no one man can be trusted?

They all came through in good shape, making rampant growths and carrying a heavy crop.

Anti-Semitism runs rampant through its pages.

In others love is rampant and reason dead.

Everywhere uproar was rampant.

Injustice is often in evidence, but it is neither rampant nor dominant.

Among no class of people is individualism so rampant as among farmers.

Malignancy was rampant and Arnold was pursued with great bitterness.

The borrowing here is rampant.

The Evils that need attention, mentioned in the Journal for May, are as rampant as ever.

The tribal sense runs rampant in Mother.

Confusion was rampant.

For half a day he was so disgusted at the idea that his virtue was rampant within him.

What would his quiet house be with three editions of Laura running rampant about it?

There is much racial hatred rampant still.

From this time, however, her imagination rode rampant once more over everything.

The brute is rampant, and genius is no more.