amuck

Use Amuck in a sentence

adjective

mad with murderous frenzy.

noun

amok.

Idioms

run/go amuck,

to rush about in a murderous frenzy: The maniac ran amuck in the crowd, shooting at random.

to rush about wildly; lose self-control: When the nightclub caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exits.

Origin:
1510–20; variant of amok

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amok or amuck (əˈmʌk, əˈmɒk, əˈmʌk)

—n
1.	a state of murderous frenzy, originally observed among Malays

—*adv*
2.	run amok to run about with or as if with a frenzied desire to kill

[C17: from Malay amoq furious assault]

amuck or amuck

—n

—*adv*

[C17: from Malay amoq furious assault]

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amuck (əˈmʌk)

—n, —*adv*
	a variant of amok

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Word Origin & History

amuck

17c., var. of amok; treated as a muck by Dryden, Byron, etc., and defended by Fowler, who considered amok didacticism.

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Example sentences

All of these matters are an outcome of excessive proofing requirements gone

amuck.

He recently had no working computer after he managed to stop a virus that was

running amuck in his only machine.

It is a sympathetic nervous system gone amuck that for some unknown reason will

not turn off.