amok
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
amok
adv 1: wildly; without self-control; "when the restaurant caught
fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit" [syn:
{amok}, {amuck}]
2: in a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing
sticks and bottles and stones" [syn: {amok}, {amuck},
{murderously}]
adj 1: frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was
completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk
worker smashing windows" [syn: {amuck}, {amok},
{berserk}, {demoniac}, {demoniacal}, {possessed(p)}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "amok":
Dionysiac, abandoned, attack, bacchic, bellowing, berserk,
carried away, convulsion, corybantic, delirious, demoniac,
desperate, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious,
fever, fierce, fit, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frenzy,
fulminating, furious, furor, fury, haggard, hog-wild, howling,
hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated,
like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal,
murderous insanity, orgasmic, orgiastic, paroxysm, possessed,
psychokinesia, rabid, rage, raging, ramping, ranting, raving,
raving mad, ravished, roaring, running mad, running wild, seizure,
spasm, stark-raving mad, storming, transported, uncontrollable,
violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking
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