Max Wheeler - 13/Jun/06 04:51 AM I'm not sure this trans. is quite right; for me, at least, "rampage" entails destruction of, or damage to, property, with the possibility of other elements of riot also. According to DIEC the senses of "avalot" and "aldarull" centre on a mass of people defying the forces of authority. "Going on a rampage" probably involves more than one person, but it might be only two or three. It also involves distribution in space. Thus I don't think you can have a rampage in one spot. The verb "to rampage" is, I think, predominantly used in progressive forms, and especially with "through NP". With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of ... A rogue elephant had been rampaging through the northeast section of India. The elephant had killed over 30 people and was considered a serious threat. ... NB in this last there's a sole rampager; other examples in the first page Google throws up also have lone rampagers.