amok
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7.8
- adjective
- /əˈmɑk/
:
desenfrenado
- After the announcement, chaos erupted and the crowd went amok, spilling into the streets.
- run amok
- gone amok
And the little girl whose brain it is starts going amok.
- And the little girl whose brain it is starts going amok.
- We already know, like I said, that narcissism is ego run amok.
- Like that's not when people say like, oh, cancel culture run amok.
- Otherwise therapy just becomes one more place where the entitlement runs amok.
- That's just cyber criminality run amok.
- And so now everybody's running amok.
- The untold number of bodies that stacked up as a result of utopian ideas run amok is absolutely staggering.
Examples
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For a while, I watched the children running amok in the corridor.
Fiction book (1998) -
Is this how you go through life, just running amok and trampling anyone in your path?
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Fourth, this issue of costs gone amok demands even more attention than it already has received.
Academic text (2003) -
Wild animals running amok in suburban Virginia.
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Mr. President, what you saw in there was nothing more than vanity run amok.
Fiction book (1995) -
A man's dignity is the one thing that holds him back from running amok.
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With political correctness and secular progressives running amok, the world needs them now more than ever.
Blog text (5) -
See, I've got a feeling that there is a point of crisis in stable systems of magnetic fields, where small changes get magnified, and then all of a sudden everything goes amok.
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The children ran amok in the park, shouting and playing without any supervision.
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During the game, emotions ran amok as fans cheered and booed fiercely.
Synonyms
26
5.6
You cannot stop doing something because of strong feeling
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7.9
In a very wild and excited way without control
1
7.0
Spreading quickly and without control
1
9.9
Acting wild and out of control, often hurting things or people
Antonyms
How Uncontrolled
Surface Forms
Etymology
Amok comes from the Malay/Indonesian word amuk, which meant 'to attack violently' or rush at people in a wild way. Think of the English phrase 'run amok' — people running wildly and out of control — and that's why amok means behaving in a frenzied, uncontrolled, or violent way.