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What does rampant mean?

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Adjective
  1. (originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
  2. (heraldry) Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
  3. (architecture) Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
  4. Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
  5. Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
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Asset-price inflation may be rampant but the price of goods in the shops is falling as China continues to churn them out at an increasing rate.
Entering the airport, chaos ran rampant as green-clad soldiers in berets stood guard with machine guns at every exit.
The glamour has faded away, because of the weak main building and the rampant plants growing inside and outside.
For protesters the present arrangement perpetuates gross global inequity, made worse by rampant globalization.
She turned angrily to her brothers, her eyes blazing with fierce indignation and rampant fury.
Confusion about that process is so rampant at the moment, however, as to be almost comical.

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