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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

variant of amok

Oxford Reference Dictionary

var. of AMOK.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Amuck A*muck" ([.a]*m[u^]k"), a. & adv. [Malay amoq furious.] In a frenzied and reckless manner. To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of ``bhang,'' and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. --Pope.