rampantly
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7.0
- adverb
- /ˈræmpəntli/
:
desenfrenadamente
- During the summer, the insects multiplied rampantly, making it difficult to enjoy the outdoors.
- grow rampantly
And so there's some coordination between cells such that you don't have cells rampantly dividing out of control.
- And so there's some coordination between cells such that you don't have cells rampantly dividing out of control.
- That's when I was using them rampantly, rampantly.
Examples
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Nevertheless, criminal violence rampantly increased so that by 2000, England surpassed the United States to become one of the developed world's most violence-ridden nations.
Academic text (2007) -
School rules are rampantly disregarded by the children.
Academic text (1990) -
In society, discrimination occurs rather rampantly.
Academic text (1999) -
Another factor, of course, is the sex industry, where the disease spreads rampantly among sex workers and their clients.
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And meanwhile, the sewage runs rampantly down the hill between their open shacks.
Blog text (4) -
The anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism throughout the world are growing rampantly, and the public is not being told the truth about Israel.
Blog text (6) -
PTSD has been so rampantly used as movie/sitcom material that it has ended up with people misinformed about it.
Blog text (33) -
Note how everything is rampantly being taken away from them, yet many still don't get it, so they just blame Obama and shout socialism.
Blog text (6) -
The cumulative effects of drug trafficking and the spreading insurgencies, coupled with a rampantly corrupt political system that has long excluded large sectors of the citizenry, have exacerbated the country's immense institutional problems.
Academic text (1999) -
The weeds grew rampantly in the garden, overtaking the flowers and shrubs.
Synonyms
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2.9
In a way that is not controlled and shows strong feeling
61
3.2
In a very wild and uncontrolled way
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5.6
You cannot stop doing something because of strong feeling
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6.5
Showing very strong excitement and uncontrolled actions
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4.7
In a wild and foolish way
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7.9
In a very wild and excited way without control
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2.8
In an uncontrolled way
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7.0
Very quickly and in a worried or excited way
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7.5
In a loud, wild, and very lively way
In a way that shows strong feeling and no holding back
In a wild, panicked way
In a very wild and angry way
In a very strong, angry, or violent way
In a noisy, energetic way that is hard to control
In a way that spreads quickly and widely like a disease
How Uncontrolled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rampantly comes from rampant, which once meant 'to climb up' or 'stand up' like a wild animal or vines growing over a wall. That's why we use rampantly to talk about something spreading or happening in an uncontrolled, wild way.