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Definition: Berserk |
BerserkAdjective1. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "berserk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references) |
Synonyms: BerserkSynonyms: amok (adj), amuck (adj), demoniac (adj), demoniacal (adj), possessed(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory. |
Violence | Berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast; fire eater; (blusterer). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Berserk |
| English words defined with "berserk": amok, amuck ♦ demoniac, demoniacal ♦ possessed. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Berserk! (1968) Going Berserk (1983) | |
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 | Berserk; crazed; crazy; delirious; deranged; intemperate; mad-dog; raging; sick; wild. | | Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous. |
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| "Berserk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.70% of the time. "Berserk" is used about 91 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.7% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.3% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "berserk": go berserk. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "berserk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trim (baresark, berserker, brave, cant, courageous, dare devil, daring, Dauntless, Doughty, fearless, gallant, game, Hardy, lion-hearted, manful, plucky, reckless, spunky, stouthearted, valiant, valor, valorous, valour), luftëtar (baresark, berserker, campaigner, combatant, extirpator, fighter, guerilla, warrior), i tërbuar (berserker, enraged, frantic, frenzied, furious, mad, rabid, rampageous, rampant, riotous, wild), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هائج (agitated, bad tempered, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обезумял (distracted, frenzied, lunatic, mad, wild, witless), неустрашим войн (berserker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nepříèetný (not all there, raving mad, unsound), šílený (crackpot, crazy, demented, frenzied, furious, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, manic, terrible, terrific, tomfool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Berserkergang (berserk rage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ازجادررفته (Mad), اشفته (Disheveled, Messy, Phrenetic, Turbulent, Upset), شوریده (Crazy, Distraught, Phrenetic), دیوانه (Bedlam, Crazy, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Gaga, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se déchaîner (be infuriated, go berserk), fureur guerrière (berserk rage), devenir fou furieux (go berserk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wütend (angrily, angry, enraged, fuming, furious, grim, incensed, infuriated, irate, irately, livid, rabid, raging, sulfureous, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έξω φρενών (aboil, amok, amuck, preposterous), έξαλλοσ (aboil, delirious, distracted, frantic, furious, hay wire, raving), μπερσέκεροσ, μαινόμενοσ (frantic, ragging), τρελλόσ (insane, loco, loony, luny, mad, maniac, nut, nuts, rompish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שתולל מטרוף (go berserk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vad harcos (berserker), megvadult (must, runaway), indulatos ember (berserker, have a bit of the devil in him), dühöngő (frenzied, grim, impetuous, rampageous, raving), dühödt harcos (berserker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengamuk (rampage, see: amuk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frenetico (fantastic, frantic, frenzied, rapturous, raving mad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ベリリウ 銅 (bel canto, Belgium, bell, Bellcore, belt conveyer, Belt for western clothes, beryllium copper, mountain, Versailles, weltschmerz). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ベルセルク . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn verre-chaggee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erserkbay furioso (angry, delirious, distraction, furious, hot, mad, rabid, raging, rampageous, rampant, raving, savage, tearing, violent, Wilding), frenético (frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, partisan, phrenetic). (various references) берсеркер (berserker), бешеный (baresark, berserker, crazed, frantic, furious, mad, rabid, tearing). (various references) poludeo (crazy, mind: out of one's mind), ludak (berserker, crackpot, lunatic, madman, nut), lud (bonkers, buggy, crazy, daft, demented, distraught, head: off his head, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, nut, nut: off one's nut, nuts). (various references) enloquecido. (various references) bärsärk (baresark, berserker). (various references) โกรธมาก (eppy, foam with). (various references) çılgına dönmüş (beside oneself, delirious), çılgın (bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "berserk": berserker, berserkers, berserkly, berserks. (additional references) | |
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"Berserk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baserk, Belser, bersar, berserkr, berzerk, beserk, Bessera, Bresler, brezerk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "berserk" (pronounced berser"k) |
| 3 | -s er" k | cirque. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-k-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: breeks. | |
-2 letters: beers, brees, esker, kerbs, reeks, serer. | |
-3 letters: beer, bees, bree, ekes, errs, kerb, rebs, reek, rees, seek, seer, sere, skee. | |
-4 letters: bee, brr, eke, ere, err, ers, reb, ree, res, see, ser. | |
-5 letters: be, er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-k-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: berserks, breakers, rebukers. | |
+2 letters: berserker, berserkly, bickerers, reembarks. | |
+3 letters: aerobrakes, barkeepers, berserkers, brokerages, firebreaks, inkberries. | |
+4 letters: breakfaster, breakwaters, hackberries, heartbreaks, icebreakers, jawbreakers, keyboarders, knobkerries, lawbreakers, pokeberries, rekeyboards, rubbernecks, tiebreakers. | |
+5 letters: backbreakers, blackberries, boilermakers, breakfasters, breaststroke, chokeberries, greenbackers, halterbreaks, housebreaker, powerbrokers, prebreakfast, skateboarder, stockbreeder, windbreakers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 72 73 65 72 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-. ... . .-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100101 01110010 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e r s e r k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0072 0073 0065 0072 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36718485718477 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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