(v.) Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.
(v.) Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.
(v.) Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rampant individualism means we have become a society of consumers, not voters.
(2) The parotid saliva of the caries-rampant group showed a significantly higher level of anodemigrating proteins, predominantly isoamylases, and a significantly lower level of cathode-migrating proteins than that of the caries-resistant group in both paraffin-stimulated and sour lemon-stimulated salivary flows.
(3) A study by Michigan state university into North Carolina's jury selection process found that discrimination was rampant right across the state, with twice as many black people excluded from service in death penalty cases as other groups.
(4) An interview was applied to the fathers of the children of the study group in order to determinate hygiene oral habits, eating and familiar antecedents that could influence in the process of the ordinary and rampant caries and to compare between them.
(5) In fact, he's a rampant homophobe, which usually suggests someone might actually be a teeny bit gay and trying to hide it – but he isn't, at all.
(6) Neither of us are rampant or militant or any of those other descriptors anti-feminists fling about to scare those who stand up for their rights.
(7) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(8) There is strong evidence to suggest that the main cause of rampant heterosexual transmission of the HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in contrast to the rarer heterosexual HIV transmission in Europe and the USA is the high prevalence of ulcerative STD in Africa.
(9) The indications for fresh frozen plasma are still not clearly established and excessive use is rampant.
(10) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(11) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
(12) Since the incumbent, Ilham Aliyev, inherited power from his late father 10 years ago, Azerbaijan has become mired in rampant corruption , and the ruling regime has grown ever more authoritarian and ruthless .
(13) How is an aspiring monkey photographer supposed to make it if she can’t stop the rampant internet piracy of monkey works?
(14) Buhari has presented himself as a born-again democrat who possesses the experience to steer the country through instability, currency woes and rampant corruption.
(15) Gangs became rampant in the 80s; membership was based on where you lived.
(16) He added that the Chinese government still needed to address public discontent over issues such as rampant corruption.
(17) The clinical counterpart of this model should use subjects with high caries activity, because it is reasonable to assume that etiologic factors are exaggerated in human populations where the disease is rampant.
(18) Despair is said to be rampant among them, so much so that they would rather starve themselves to death than endure more.
(19) There are certain expectations, going back centuries, of male sexuality being rampant and ungovernable, and equal and opposite expectations of female sexuality.
(20) Since his hospitalisation, Musharraf has made no public appearances and there has been rampant speculation in the media that he would be evacuated from the country under a medical pretence.
Virulent
Definition:
(a.) Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.
(a.) Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
(2) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(3) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
(4) The results point out the importance of detecting specific virulence factors before incriminating water as a source of human diarrhea.
(5) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.
(6) One mutant, BS260, was completely noninvasive on HeLa cells and mapped to a region on the 220-kb virulence plasmid in which we had previously localized several avirulent temperature-regulated operon fusions (A.E.
(7) The proteins of two HEV isolates, one apathogenic (HEV-A) and one virulent (HEV-V), resembled each other in most respects.
(8) The geometric mean titers of anti-Shigella antibodies to virulence plasmid-associated antigens in milk received before infection were eightfold higher in infants who remained well than in those in whom diarrhea developed.
(9) Presented are the clinical, pathologic, and virulence features of sudden death due to Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus.
(10) Some of these strains have been used by investigators to study gonococcal virulence.
(11) With the faster rate of proliferation there was a corresponding increase in virulence.
(12) On average, clinical isolates were not more virulent than fecal isolates.
(13) Since the four determining coefficients may change over evolutionary time-scales, the mathematical results together with a natural selection argument proves that virulence gamma 2 attenuates.
(14) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(15) Understanding the molecular biology of a virulence factor also provides information about potential targets for future therapies and preventive modalities.
(16) This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when coincubated with T. pyriformis.
(17) Combinations of factors were generally more predictive for defining virulent clones, particularly in infants defined as being at normal risk of developing septicaemia.
(18) Strain IIBNV6, however, complemented with all virulent strains tested.
(19) Measurable activity on day 7 depended on infectious virus dose, virus virulence, and non-H-2 genetic background of the host.
(20) A related mechanism is proposed for the control of the virulence of animal viruses.