RUN AMUCK

  

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RUN AMUCK

Specialty Definition: RUN AMUCK

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Literature

Run Amuck (See Amuck .)
"It was like a Malay running amuck, only with
A more deadly weapon."- The Times.
"Frontless and satire-proof he scours the streets,
And runs an Indian-muck at all he meets."
Dryden: The Hind and the Panther. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: RUN AMUCK

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Attack

Lay about one, run amuck.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Killing

Give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.

Violence

Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: RUN AMUCK

English words defined with "RUN AMUCK": To run amuck. (references)

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Commercial Usage: RUN AMUCK

DomainTitle

Books

  • Anarchy in Our Schools: America Run Amuck (reference)

  • Nip and Tuck Run Amuck (Puppet Buddy Books) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: RUN AMUCK

Expression using "RUN AMUCK": To run amuck. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RUN AMUCK

Language Translations for "RUN AMUCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lëshohem si i çmendur (run amok), bëhem i padrejtur (run amok). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вилнея (ballyrag, rage, ramp, rampage, rave, run amok, run wild, stalk), обезумявам (go crazy, run amok), беснея (foam, rage, raise cain, ramp, rave, run amok, storm), побеснявам (become furious, get into a wax, go mad, grow rabid, hit the ceiling, run amok). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dostat záchvat amoku (run amok), být stižen amokem (run amok), bìžet amokem (run amok). (various references)

   

Danish

  

at gaa amok (androphonomania, homicidal mania). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uit zýn vel springen, moordzucht (androphonomania, homicidal mania), androphonomania (androphonomania, homicidal mania), androfonomanie (androphonomania, homicidal mania), amok maken, amok (amuck, fierceness). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

furiozegiĝi. (various references)

   

French

  

amok, état crépusculaire avec impulsions homicides. (various references)

   

German

  

Androphonomanie (androphonomania, homicidal mania), Amoklaufen (androphonomania, homicidal mania), amok laufen (run amok). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανδροφονομανία (androphonomania, homicidal mania), αμόκ (amok, amuck). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elvakultan garázdálkodik (run amok), ámokfutóvá tesz (run amok). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menggelap (disapper in dark, turn dark), amuk (go berserk). (various references)

   

Italian

  

androfonomania (androphonomania, homicidal mania), amok (androphonomania, homicidal mania). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

狂い回る (to rave, to run amuck), 暴れ狂う (to rage, to run amuck, to tear around). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くるいまわる (to rave, to run amuck), あばれくるう (to rage, to run amuck, to tear around). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unray amuckay

   

Portuguese

  

ter acesso de raiva (run amok), enlouquecer (craze, dement, derange, go mad, mad, madden, run amok, run mad), androfonomania (androphonomania, homicidal mania). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обезуметь (run amok, see red), набрасываться (pounce, run amok). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razbesniti se (amok: run amok, amuck: run amuck), podivljati (amok: run amok, amuck: run amuck, drive wild, savage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

volverse loco (go berserk, go mad, go round the bend, run amok, run mad), amok (androphonomania, homicidal mania). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

löpa amok (amuck, run amok). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gözü dönüp saldırmak (run amok), etrafa saldırmak (lash about, lash out, run amok), öldürmek için saldırmak (run amok). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шаленіти (fall into a rage, rage, run amok, tear), несамовито накидатися (run amok), бігти нестямно (run amok). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RUN AMUCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-k-m-n-r-u-u"

-3 letters: amuck, aurum, crank, knaur, unarm.

-4 letters: arum, cark, carn, cram, curn, karn, knar, knur, kuna, kuru, mack, marc, mark, maun, muck, mura, murk, narc, nark, rack, rank, ruck, unau.

-5 letters: amu, arc, ark, arm, auk, cam, can, car, cum, cur, mac, man, mar, mun, nam, ram, ran, rum, run, urn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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