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1. Extending unchecked; unrestrained: a rampant growth of weeds in the neglected yard.
2. Occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife: a rampant epidemic; rampant corruption in city government.
a. Rearing on the hind legs.
b. Heraldry Rearing on the left hind leg with the forelegs elevated, the right above the left, and usually with the head in profile.
4. Architecture Springing from a support or an abutment that is higher at one side than at the other: a rampant arch.
In an unrestrained and often menacing manner: vandals running rampant in the city.

[Middle English rampaunt, from Old French rampant, present participle of ramper, to ramp; see ramp2.]

ram′pan·cy n.
ram′pant·ly adv.


[ˈræmpənsɪ] N (= uncontrolled lust) → desenfreno m; (= aggression) → agresividad f; [of foliage] → exuberancia f; [of disease, inflation, crime] → predominio m


n (of plants, growth)Üppigkeit f, → Wuchern nt; (of evil, corruption)wilde(s) Wuchern
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The police spokesman expressed sadness over the rampancy of bank robbery in recent times, urging the public to always provide them with information that could help them prevent attacks on people and institutions in the state.
It is a tough task to eradicate illegal numbers games because of its rampancy in Central Luzon and Southern Luzon provinces, including Bicol, while "masiao and the last two-digit games" are widespread in the Visayas and Mindanao, Balutan admitted.
The rampancy of abuse and corruption in Malaysia will make attempts to restore and uphold the rule of law arduous, said Perak's Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah today.
The Chinese government has been trying to restrict the use of these furnace facilities since 2002, but failed to do so due to its rampancy in different parts of China.
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The President's cornerstone campaign against drugs and crime-now shown to be based on dubious, shifting data at best about the rampancy of the drug menace in the country-has consumed the lion's share of this administration's energy, spleen and resources.
For any undesirable transmissible object, the spectral radius minimization problem (SRMP) turns out to be crucial to contain its rampancy in a network.