300: rampage and rampant Oct 4, 2015

'Rampage' and 'rampant' are related to the word 'ramp'. A ramp in the modern sense means, "a slope or incline", but it did not always. 'Ramp' comes from the Old French 'ramper' meaning to ‘creep, crawl', and also 'rear up', giving 'rampage' and 'rampant' the sense of being animalistic, not to mention the modern meaning of ramps as something that escalates both physically, and here, in terms of problems.