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1 be rife and rampant
Фразеологизм: рвать и метать, свирепствовать
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rampant — ram|pant [ˈræmpənt] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: , present participle of ramper to climb, crawl ] 1.) if something bad, such as crime or disease, is rampant, there is a lot of it and it is very difficult to control →↑rife, widespread… … Dictionary of contemporary English
rampant — ramp•ant [[t]ˈræm pənt[/t]] adj. 1) prevailing or unchecked; widespread; rife: a rampant rumor[/ex] 2) cvb bot growing luxuriantly, as weeds 3) violent in action or spirit; raging; furious 4) zool. (of an animal) standing on the hind legs;… … From formal English to slang
rampant — [ram′pənt] adj. [ME < OFr, prp. of ramper: see RAMP2] 1. growing luxuriantly; flourishing [rampant plants] 2. spreading unchecked; widespread; rife 3. violent and uncontrollable in action, manner, speech, etc. 4. Archit. having one abutment… … English World dictionary
rampant — rampantly, adv. /ram peuhnt/, adj. 1. violent in action or spirit; raging; furious: a rampant leopard. 2. growing luxuriantly, as weeds. 3. in full sway; prevailing or unchecked: a rampant rumor. 4. (of an animal) standing on the hind legs;… … Universalium
rife — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. prevalent, current, widespread, epidemic; abundant, plentiful, profuse, teeming. See news, generality. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Widespread] Syn. prevalent, extensive, common; see prevailing ,… … English dictionary for students
rampant — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, abounding, abundant, affluent, all sufficing, ample, anabatic, aplenty, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, average, besetting, bolt upright, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, climbing, common,… … Moby Thesaurus
rife — Synonyms and related words: abounding, abundant, affluent, afloat, alive with, all sufficing, ample, aplenty, average, bandied about, besetting, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bruited about, bursting, common, copious, crawling,… … Moby Thesaurus
Crime and violence in Latin America — Crime and violence are affecting the lives of millions of people in Latin America. Social inequality is considered one of the major causes of violence in Latin America,[1] where the state fails to prevent crime and organized crime takes over… … Wikipedia
Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… … Universalium
BEGGING AND BEGGARS — Although the Bible is concerned with the poor and the needy, there is hardly a reference to begging or to beggars, and there is, in fact, no biblical Hebrew word for it. The needs of the poor were provided by the laws of leket, shikhḥah , and pe… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium