amok
(among members of certain Southeast Asian cultures) a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder.
Idioms about amok
run / go amok. amuck (def. 3).
Origin of amok
1- Also amuck.
Words Nearby amok
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How to use amok in a sentence
Many of the lawmakers I spoke to were reluctant to propose sweeping legislation that could run amok of civil liberties.
The Trailer: How Democrats plan to fight domestic terror | David Weigel | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostIt’s not that they don’t fear AI running amok—it’s that they see it already happening, just not in the ways most people would expect.
The true dangers of AI are closer than we think | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewMoreover, they do almost nothing to address the very real privacy and security risks of corporate data exploitation run amok.
App bans won’t make US security risks disappear | Amy Nordrum | September 21, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewGreenhouse gases have run amok and made it totally inhospitable—perhaps an extreme version of what Earth could look like in the very distant future.
The 5 best places to explore in the solar system—besides Mars | Neel Patel | August 17, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe story was framed as an instance of lawless youth run amok – an almost unprovoked riot.
How the New York Media Covered The Stonewall Riots | LGBTQ-Editor | June 23, 2020 | No Straight News
Perhaps the real clowns losing face while their evil clones run amok.
His sexual life, just like his barbarism, was the result of deliberation, not appetites run amok.
Nothing Was Banal About Eichmann’s Evil, Says a Scathing New Biography | Michael Signer | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDo they have a point, or are their complaints just anti-intellectualism run amok?
Tatum wears the shame(s) of a nation on his face in this quietly devastating portrait of the American dream run amok.
Oscar Season Kicks Off in Toronto: Channing Tatum, Kristen Stewart, and More Court Awards Glory | Marlow Stern | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“When you have an executive who has run amok, it is the solution our Founding Fathers have laid out,” he said.
The New Conservative Purity Test: Impeaching Obama | David Freedlander | July 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBriggs was taking no chances with another of the yellow dogs running amok.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandA boy came up to us in great excitement to say that the prisoner had got hold of a bayonet and was running amok.
The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga | Cornelis De Witt WillcoxSo he takes his knife an' runs amok to stab so many people as he can, an' he don't care a dam' if only he makes a big smash.
Where the Pavement Ends | John RussellI saw one instance where a henpecked husband "ran amok" and killed or wounded seventeen people before he himself was killed.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 | Elbert HubbardAll was confusion, all a kind of wild and orgiastic dream, culmination of heredity, of a spirit run amok.
Cursed | George Allan England
British Dictionary definitions for amok
amuck (əˈmʌk)
/ (əˈmʌk, əˈmɒk) /
a state of murderous frenzy, originally observed among Malays
run amok to run about with or as if with a frenzied desire to kill
Origin of amok
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