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TO RUN AMUCK

Definition: TO RUN AMUCK

TO RUN AMUCK

1. To rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of ``bhang,'' and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. --Pope.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO RUN AMUCK

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

Hungarian

  

ámokfutást rendez (to run amok). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

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

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

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

   

Pig Latin

  

otay unray amuckay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO RUN AMUCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: truckman.

-3 letters: courant, outrank, romaunt, turacou.

-4 letters: amount, antrum, autumn, cantor, carton, contra, cornua, craton, koruna, macron, matron, outman, outran, outrun, runout, toucan, tumour, turaco, uncork, untack, untuck.

-5 letters: acorn, actor, amort, amour, amuck, aurum, canto, carom, cornu, cotan, count, court, crank, croak, knaur, knout, korat, korun, kraut, krona, kurta, macon, macro, manor, mount.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO RUN AMUCK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      52 55 4E      41 4D 55 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01000001 01001101 01010101 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#32 &#65 &#77 &#85 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      0041 004D 0055 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449252554823547553745

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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