Amok synonyms

ə-mŭk', ə-mŏk'

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amuck (related)
Crazed with murderous frenzy:
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berserk
Mentally or emotionally upset; deranged:
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demoniac
Like or characteristic of a demon; fiendish; frenzied
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demoniacal
Pertaining to, characteristic of, or produced by a demon or evil spirit; devilish or fiendish.
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possessed
Controlled by an emotion or as if by an evil spirit; crazed; mad
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murderously
in a murderous frenzy
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maenadic
(By extension, of a woman) Excessively wild or emotional.
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amock (related)
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afoul (related)
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Find another word for amok. In this page you can discover 9 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for amok, like: amuck, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed, murderously, maenadic, amock and afoul.
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Amok Sentence Examples

  • The children were running amok when their teacher stepped away from the classroom.

  • Police officers from the neighboring city were called in to restore order after rioters ran amok in the streets.

  • She does not let the kids have sugar after dinner because they would run amok at bedtime.

  • Whe the robot started going amok and could not be controlled, the engineers realized they had made a terrible mistake in the programming.

  • As the English phrase "running amok" implies, the syndrome is characterized by sudden outbursts of indiscriminate aggression or murderous rage that are completely unprovoked or that are triggered by trivial slights.

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