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5. strike, hit, dash against, collide with, run into; butt, batter, bump, crash, clash, buffet, smash, thwack, clip; wham, whack, thump, slam, jolt, telescope; (of ships) run against and sink.
ramble, v. 1. wander, wander around, meander; saunter, perambulate, take a walk, go for a walk, stroll, go for a stroll, promenade, hike; amble, amble about, gad, gad about, jaunt; nomadize, peregrinate, flit, traipse; wander off, stray, deviate, detour, go round about; straggle, drift, mosey, shuffle, stumble or limp or hobble along; range, rove, prowl, float, skip around; follow the wild goose, wander from pillar to post, see the country, Inf hit the road or trail.
2. digress, speak discursively, maunder, expatiate; rant, rant on, blather, rave, dwell on, talk aimlessly; gibber, chatter, babble, gabble, run off at the mouth, rattle on, twaddle, go on, go on and on, ramble on; Inf chew [s.o.'s] ear off, Inf bend [s.o.'s] ear, Inf beat about the bush, Inf beat a dead horse, dwell on, harp on, Inf beat a subject to death.
-n. 3. walk, saunter, stroll, constitutional, promenade; perambulation, hike, tramp; jaunt, junket, prowl, circuit; trek, excursion, tour, Brit, walkabout, peregrination; deviation, digression, divagation, excursus, detour.
rambler, n. roamer, gadabout, traveler; wayfarer, journeyer, tripper, tourist; hiker, trekker, peregrinator; bird of passage, globetrotter, jetsetter, sun-follower; itinerant, Inf. corporate gypsy; nomad, arab, gypsy; vagabond, hobo, tramp, stray, beachcomber, ski bum.
rambling, adj. 1. wandering, traveling, roving, itinerant, peripatetic, migratory; vagrant, homeless, nomadic; wayfaring, perambulatory, drifting.
2. straggling, meandering, irregular, uneven, erratic, capricious, fitful; unsystematic, aberrant, circuitous, indirect, zigzagging.
3. discursive, excursive, circumlocutory, circumlocutional, circumlocutionary, circuitous, roundabout, ambagious; diffuse, wordy, long-winded, prolix, verbose; desultory, episodic, rhapsodic; disconnected, disjointed, maundering, periphrastic.
rambunctious, adj. 1. boisterous, agitated, unquiet, restive, hyperactive; rowdy, brawling, disorderly, robustious, riotous, wild; rampageous, reckless, Sl. hell-raising; obstreperous, unrestrained, unruly, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, out of hand; ungoverned, unbridled, refractory, recalcitrant; defiant, contumacious, fractious, Inf. ornery.
2. noisy, loud, vociferous; rackety, clamorous, clamant, blatant, clangorous; ear-splitting, ear-piercing, ear-rending, deafening, enough to wake the dead.
ramification, n. 1. branching, diverging, forking; configuration, radiation, divergency.
2. branch, bough, limb; sprig, twig, sprout, shoot; scion, spur, arm, spray; offshoot, runner, tendril.
3. outgrowth, consequence, fruit, development, aftermath, eventuation, end; outcome, result, product, effect, upshot; sequel, derivative, implication; complexity, complication, technicality, subtlety.
ramp, n. 1. slope, sloping surface, inclined plane, grade, gradient, incline; acclivity, rise, ascent; declivity, dip, downhill slope; access ramp, approach, entrance or exit ramp, on or off ramp.
-v. 2. rear, rear or rise up, uprear, rise on the hind legs.
3. ramp about, rear up and roar, rear and roar like a lion, tear around, run amuck, go berserk, Inf. come on strong, Inf. carry on; fly into a passion or rage, go into hysterics, Inf. throw a fit, Inf. have a tantrum or temper tantrum, Inf. get into a lather or dither or swivet, Inf. race one's motor, Sl. blow a gasket; rage, storm, bellow, Inf. blow up, Inf. explode, Inf blow one's top or cool; ramp and rage, rant and rave, tear one's hair.
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