berserk

[ UK /bəsˈɜːk/ ]
[ US /bɝˈsɝk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. wildly frenzied and out of control
    the soldier was completely amuck
    berserk with grief
    a berserk worker smashing windows
NOUN
  1. one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury
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How To Use berserk In A Sentence

  • Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
  • When they tried to arrest him, he suddenly went berserk.
  • On the table in the front of the room was a telephone, which rang whenever the bond market went berserk.
  • Men like to zap the TV channels, something that can drive certain women berserk.
  • As fluent with their bodies as with language, they sing, sort papers, go berserk, and snap to attention when buzzers go off, signaling the need to receive of send messages.
  • His facial features can shift in a twitch from the innocent blankness of a choirboy during the sermon to the frantic grimaces of an axe-wielding berserker.
  • Men like to zap the TV channels, something that can drive certain women berserk.
  • Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakspeare. The American Scholar
  • You are the legendary berserker who returns for Regin the Radiant. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • When the Principal Officer steps in to lock him up he goes berserk and attacks staff. The Prisons We Deserve
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