[
US
/əˈmək/
]
[ UK /ɐmˈʌk/ ]
[ UK /ɐmˈʌk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
wildly frenzied and out of control
the soldier was completely amuck
berserk with grief
a berserk worker smashing windows
ADVERB
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in a murderous frenzy
rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones -
wildly; without self-control
when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit
How To Use amuck In A Sentence
- And you see corporate crime running amuck with very limited enforcement resources.
- Whatever its origins, we are in danger today of utter destruction by a virulent virus identified as a cancerous self-interest run amuck. OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
- In the time that amuck in pilfer edition, this is an impossible task almost.
- You can get those English high-muckamucks by mail for two bucks apiece, suggested Sidney Finkelstein. Chapter 29
- Being parents, you should educate your son not to run amuck.
- rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones
- We live in a democracy case the big muckamucks hadn't noticed. The bailout fails!
- The muckamuck was nowhere to be seen, though its fearmonger had come to rest in a rosebush. Asimov's Science Fiction
- Now Wyrzbowski could see the muckamuck, resplendent in the egg-sack slime of its body suit, wielding its red fearmonger while flunkies covered its spindle-shanked ass. Asimov's Science Fiction
- In no minute did the sea run amuck.