rampant
IPA: rˈæmpʌnt
adjective
- (originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
- (heraldry) Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
- (architecture) Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
- Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
- Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
adverb
- (informal, nonstandard) Rampantly.
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Examples of "rampant" in Sentences
- But the term rampant grower does not do it justice.
- Two Lions rampant, when face to face, are _Counter rampant_, or
- In 2006 this former high level immigration official testified before congress on what he described as rampant corruption in the agency.
- In 2006, this former high-level immigration official testified before Congress on what he described as rampant corruption in the agency.
- I propose the term rampant fantasy for books that: ... pile concept upon concept while the previous concept hasn't been adequately absorbed in the story.
- Activist criticism The activists, who have been campaigning for a strong anti-graft law, say the draft legislation is too weak to address what they call rampant corruption in the country.
- While the top players of the over Rs 850 billion pharmaceutical business are up in arms over what they call rampant spread of counterfeit drugs (allegedly 20 to 25 per cent of total pharma sales) in the country, enforcement agencies and some pharma associations say the situation is not that alarming.
- Markets Raj Rajaratnam's remarkable journey from Sri Lanka to the heights of the hedge-fund world to felon ended Thursday in a defining moment for the government's campaign to stamp out what it describes as rampant illegal trading on Wall Street, when he was sentenced to 11 years in prison, the longest term ever imposed in an insider-trading case.
- According to interviews with several law enforcement officials in Bernalillo County and a review of documents, White traveled to Washington with two other Republican operatives in 2006 to complain to the Justice Department that Iglesias was balking at bringing criminal charges against what they called rampant voter fraud – and that he should be fired.
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