Search Result for "amok":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. frenzied as if possessed by a demon;
- Example: "the soldier was completely amuck"
- Example: "berserk with grief"
- Example: "a berserk worker smashing windows"
[syn: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)]
ADVERB (2)
1. wildly; without self-control;
- Example: "when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit"
[syn: amok, amuck]
2. in a murderous frenzy;
- Example: "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones"
[syn: amok, amuck, murderously]
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006):
AMOK A Modular Operating Kernel (OS, Cray)Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's):
Amok, a valley; a depthMoby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "amok": Dionysiac, abandoned, attack, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, carried away, convulsion, corybantic, delirious, demoniac, desperate, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fever, fierce, fit, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frenzy, fulminating, furious, furor, fury, haggard, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, murderous insanity, orgasmic, orgiastic, paroxysm, possessed, psychokinesia, rabid, rage, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished, roaring, running mad, running wild, seizure, spasm, stark-raving mad, storming, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking
