AMOK: RUN AMOK

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Amok — laufen: in blinder Wut umherlaufen (und töten). Der Ausdruck kommt von malaiisch ›amuk, amok‹: Wut. Auf den malaiischen Inseln wurde bei Eingeborenen eine Art wütende Geistesgestörtheit beobachtet, die mit einem Mordtrieb einhergeht: der… …   Das Wörterbuch der Idiome

  • amok — [ə muk′, əmäk′] adj., adv. [< Malay amuk, attacking furiously, ult. < Old Javanese] in a frenzy; in a violent rage run amok or go amok 1. to rush about in a frenzy to kill 2. to lose control of oneself and behave outrageously or violently 3 …   English World dictionary

  • 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

  • RUN (magazine) — RUN was an American computer magazine published monthly by IDGE Communications with its first issue debuting in January 1984. Bi monthly publishing began in June/July 1990 (issue #78, volume 7 number 6), and went on until the magazine folded in… …   Wikipedia

  • amok — run amok …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • run amok — GO BERSERK, get out of control, rampage, riot, run riot, go on the rampage, behave like a maniac, behave wildly/uncontrollably, become violent/destructive; informal raise hell. → amok * * * run amok phrase to behave in an uncontrolled and often… …   Useful english dictionary

  • run — [[t]rʌ̱n[/t]] ♦ runs, running, ran (The form run is used in the present tense and is also the past participle of the verb.) 1) VERB When you run, you move more quickly than when you walk, for example because you are in a hurry to get somewhere,… …   English dictionary

  • run — 1 /rVn/ verb past tense ran past participle run present participle running MOVE QUICKLY ON FOOT 1 (I) to move quickly on foot by moving your legs more quickly than when you are walking: I had to run to catch the bus. | Two youths were killed when …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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