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amok
[uh-muhk, uh-mok]
noun
(among members of certain Southeast Asian cultures) a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder.
adjective
amok
/ əˈmʌk, əˈmɒk, əˈmʌk /
noun
a state of murderous frenzy, originally observed among Malays
adverb
to run about with or as if with a frenzied desire to kill
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of amok1
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of amok1
Example Sentences
But that all changed at about 10:00 on Tuesday when a former student ran amok at a secondary school in the Dreierschützengasse, close to the main station in Austria's second largest city.
But that would shortchange “Severance,†which takes another run at a corporate world run amok, detailing it in ways that are far more unsettling than anything in the latest season of “Squid Game.â€
As Google and others try to put a softer focus around technology, moviegoers are still getting plenty of stories about the dangers of robots run amok.
It would be facile and easy to argue that this level of emotion is characteristic of their “intimate male friendship†and their shared passion run amok.
County sheriffs for the decades is the stream of allegations about tattooed internal gangs running amok at certain stations.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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