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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows" [syn: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed] adv
1: wildly; without self-control; "when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit" [syn: amok, amuck]
2: in a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones" [syn: amok, amuck, murderously]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun or amuck Etymology: Malay amok Date: 1665 a murderous frenzy that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture II. adverb or amuck Date: 1672 1. in a murderously frenzied state 2. a. in a violently raging manner <a virus that had run amok> b. in an undisciplined, uncontrolled, or faulty manner <films…about computers run amok — People> III. adjective or amuck Date: 1944 possessed with or motivated by a murderous or violently uncontrollable frenzy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. (also amuck) Phrases and idioms: run amok run about wildly in an uncontrollable violent rage. Etymology: Malay amok rushing in a frenzy

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way. A soldier was arrested after running amok with a vehicle through Berlin. PHRASE: V inflects

Hitchcock Bible Dictionary

a valley; a depth

Moby Thesaurus

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