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on), rattle on, Colloq Brit witter on, rabbit on or away: If
you didn't stop him, Hugh would ramble on for ever about his
grandchildren.
--n. 4 stroll, amble, saunter, walk, promenade, constitutional,
walkabout, tour, tramp, hike, trek: We went on a short ramble
through the park.
rambling adj. 1 discursive, roundabout, circuitous, tortuous,
incoherent, diffuse, unsettled, disconnected, disjointed,
disorganized, unorganized, illogical, maundering, aimless,
confused, muddled, jumbled, scrambled, unintelligible,
inarticulate, periphrastic, circumlocutory, circumlocutional,
circumlocutionary, ambagious, wordy, verbose, prolix, endless,
interminable: We couldn't make heads or tails of the
professor's rambling lecture. 2 unplanned, straggling,
irregular, sprawling, spread out, spreading, straggly: The
Wilsons live in that big old rambling Victorian house down the
road. 3 roving, wandering, travelling, peripatetic, itinerant,
wayfaring, migratory, nomadic: For five years he led a rambling
life as a folk-singing banjo player.
ramification
n. 1 consequence, result, effect, upshot, implication,
subtlety; complication, difficulty: Have you considered the
ramifications of your decision to retire? 2 branch, extension,
outgrowth, subdivision, offshoot: Courier services may be
considered a ramification of services that were once performed
by the post office.
ramp n. slope, grade, gradient, incline; rise, ascent, acclivity;
descent, dip, declivity: There is a special ramp in the theatre
for wheelchair access.
rampage n. 1 excitement, agitation, recklessness, riot, tumult, uproar,
frenzy, fury, rage, furore or US furor, turmoil: His latest
rampage was prompted by their serving him a cup of cold coffee.
2 Brit on the rampage, US on a rampage. berserk, mad, crazy,
amok or amuck, wild, out of control: Pete regularly drank too
much whisky and then went on the rampage.
--v. 3 storm, rage, rant, rave, go berserk, run amok or amuck:
He rampaged like a man possessed when he got his second parking