rampant

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  1. adjective Extending unchecked; unrestrained: a rampant growth of weeds in the neglected yard.
  2. adjective Occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife: a rampant epidemic; rampant corruption in city government.
  3. adjective Rearing on the hind legs.
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  • Influence peddling is rampant, and unfortunately after the 2006 Calciopoli debacle, nothing really changed. —  TechCrunch
  • Apartheid regime and the Nazis are proof that if racial policies are allowed rampant, a nation can be torn to bits. —  WordPress.com News
  • Extortion and bribery became rampant, and many Iraqis view Awakening forces as collaborators with the occupiers of their country. —  Dissident Voice
  • Leaving aside the staggeringly vast corruption that is the meat and drink, the quintessence, the sine qua non, of the American government, when have our imperial overlords ever been troubled for even a single instant by the corruption - rampant or otherwise - of its various foreign clients? —  Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
  • Starting with how Bush let the free market run rampant, and we've certainly had enough of that! —  QandO
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  1. Middle English rampaunt, from Old French rampant, present participle of ramper, to ramp; see ramp2.

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  1. from Middle English *rampant, also rampand, rampend, from Old French rampant, present participle of ramper, creep, climb: see ramp.
 

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