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amok
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective amok has 1 sense
- amok(s = adj.all) amuck, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed - frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"
Adverbial amok has 2 senses
- amok(r = adv.all) amuck - wildly; without self-control; "when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit"
- amok(r = adv.all) amuck, murderously - in a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
amok, adv. (also amuck)
Idiom
run amok run about wildly in an uncontrollable violent rage.
Etymology
Malay amok rushing in a frenzy
THESAURUS
amok
Dionysiac, abandoned, attack, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, carried away, convulsion, corybantic, delirious, demoniac, desperate, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fever, fierce, fit, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frenzy, fulminating, furious, furor, fury, haggard, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, murderous insanity, orgasmic, orgiastic, paroxysm, possessed, psychokinesia, rabid, rage, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished, roaring, running mad, running wild, seizure, spasm, stark-raving mad, storming, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking
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