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Wild way to run?
Answer for the clue "Wild way to run? ", 5 letters:
amuck
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. in a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows" [syn: amok , berserk , demoniac , demoniacal , possessed(p) ] adv. wildly; without self-control; "when the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
17c., variant of amok ; treated as a muck by Dryden, Byron, etc., and defended by Fowler, who considered amok didacticism.
Usage examples of amuck.
Something must be done, yet how few housekeepers, when called upon to sweep up a few bushels of feathers which have run amuck, have the faintest notion of what to do beyond yelling for the police?
Men have run amuck with their thoughts, and they do things that are positively criminal.
Tell me who He is, why He allows the foulest hyenas of our society to run amuck while decent men and women cower in terror behind Fox locks and Dictograph systems.
Angry curses competed with the siren as the pursuing security guards, already rattled by the amuck scooter, slid and slipped on the suddenly soaking floor tiles.
Then Osmond would get up with a slashing speech to taunt all the malcontents on the Government side into running amuck.
At first, the somewhat addlebrained but sympathetic sheriff, Bernabe Montoya, figured it was just one more irrational manifestation of an ornery temperament, of a kid, now almost middle-aged, with a king-sized chip on his shoulder, going slightly amuck.
It was a red drama of the primitive-destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.
Somehow the ordinarily rational cognitive processes run amuck and exaggerate the dangers, as when beginning spelunkers think the cave will crash down on them or speakers fear the audience will think they are dumb or people avoid revealing their personal opinions and intimate feelings.
Julian, his intuition alerting him that something had run amuck, appeared at my side.
In either case, the holders of these secrets have laudably refused to publish them, lest avarice and malice should run amuck in human society.
The belief among the women was that Turner, maddened by drink and unreasoning jealousy, had killed Vail, and then, running amuck or discovered by the other victims, had killed them.
One night at a resort called Cedar Point, he got into a fight and ran amuck like a wild thing.
Pitt and Giordino looked at each other blankly, and then back at the old desert rat, certain their eyes and their minds had run amuck.
You're one of the multitude of maladjusted AI-directed units that's been running amuck in search of advanced nonhuman intelligences.
You're one of the multitude of maladjusted Al-directed units that's been running amuck in search of advanced nonhuman intelligences.