Beside oneself

Usage examples of berserk.

Is that ship some kind of automatic weapon gone berserk, shooting around the Galaxy exterminating what it calls badlife?

Quinn, and there are some things about being Berserk that you doona understand.

If he killed Jillian, Ramsay knew Grimm would go Berserk and rip him to shreds.

The shoya was prepared, aware the thread between a sudden, berserk attack and sanity was stretched to breaking, shishi never to be trusted, one hand not far from his sleeve pocket.

Or, it might be better to say, the twisted history of his subculture gave him a death wish which resembled those of the ancient Norse berserks or the hardcore Nazis.

Whereas the old script had been primarily about a berserk Amishman who strangled and then did unspeakable things to women in a bathtub, the new script called for the movie to be filmed almost exclusively in a barn.

Its huge jaws writhe and snap, its tongue slings spit and foam over its flashing incisors, its eyes strain white and berserk in its black, Cerberean skull.

On the Klaipeda voyage I had learned a lot about the behaviour of animals aboard ship, and now I had the chance to observe the reaction of cows to being whisked into the air I felt a faint twinge of alarm when I remembered a story of how a veterinary surgeon had been in charge of some racehorses flying to America, and one of the animals had gone berserk and kicked a hole in the side of the aircraft.

Sunlight would also let the pseudoplankton in the water supply go totally berserk, clogging everythingand those damn things are toxic.

They pulled away and for five minutes I behaved like a berserk semaphorist towards the passing stream of taxis.

They stopped the vags and bums and homeless roamers at the city limits while, inside, it seemed like every block had its squad of uniformed cops, private security or rubberroom squads of parapsychs to deal with flips, screamers and the silently berserk.

Every time he went berserk either Arthur sat on him or Aileen smacked his nose and then one night he sat down and had a deep think.

He took one vertiginous step out of the cryotube and stopped, staring at the naked face of chaos worn by a berserk maintenance robot.

Anyone listening with hydrophones or studying a sonar scope would be confused, would judge that a school of porpoises had penetrated the cavern and then gone berserk.

They also wielded knives and machetes like the exploded components of a berserk threshing machine.