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[ə'mok]run amok / amuck to rush about madly, attacking everybody and everything: The prisoner ran amok and killed two prison officers.)
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amok, amuck — adv. to run amok, amuck … Combinatory dictionary
run amok — When things or people are running amok, they are wild and out of control.( Run amuck is also used.) … The small dictionary of idiomes
amuck — amok, amuck The word is normally used in the phrase to run amok/amuck, meaning ‘to run about wildly in a violent rage’, and is an extension of a particular meaning in Malay anthropology • (Edward now wore the manic look of some animal transferred … Modern English usage
amok — amok, amuck The word is normally used in the phrase to run amok/amuck, meaning ‘to run about wildly in a violent rage’, and is an extension of a particular meaning in Malay anthropology • (Edward now wore the manic look of some animal transferred … Modern English usage
amok — (adv.) in verbal phrase run amok first recorded 1670s, from Malay amuk attacking furiously. Earlier the word was used as a noun or adjective meaning a frenzied Malay, originally in the Portuguese form amouco or amuco. There are some of them [the… … Etymology dictionary
amok — (also amuck) ► ADVERB (in phrase run amok) ▪ behave uncontrollably and disruptively. ORIGIN Malay, rushing in a frenzy … English terms dictionary
amok — 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 … New Collegiate Dictionary
amok — /əˈmʌk / (say uh muk), /əˈmɒk/ (say uh mok) noun 1. SE Asian English a person in a state of violent derangement. –phrase 2. run amok, a. to rush about in a murderous frenzy. b. to rush about wildly. Also, amuck. {Malay: fighting furiously (with… …
amok — a|mok [əˈmɔk US əˈma:k] adv also amuck [Date: 1500 1600; : Mala] run amok a) to suddenly behave in a very violent and uncontrolled way ▪ Drunken troops ran amok in the town. b) to get out of control and cause a lot of problems ▪ an age in which… … Dictionary of contemporary English
amok — adv. (also amuck) Phrases and idioms: run amok run about wildly in an uncontrollable violent rage. Etymology: Malay amok rushing in a frenzy … Useful english dictionary
amok — [17] Amok is Malayan in origin, where it is an adjective, amoq, meaning ‘fighting frenziedly’. Its first brief brush with English actually came in the early 16th century, via Portuguese, which had adopted it as a noun, amouco, signifying a… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins