Crossword clues for amuck
amuck
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amuck \A*muck"\ ([.a]*m[u^]k"), a. & adv. [Malay amoq furious.] In a frenzied and reckless manner.
To run amuck, 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.
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.
Wiktionary
adv. In a frantic or frenzied and violent manner; in a confused, jumbled or uncontrolled state. alt. In a frantic or frenzied and violent manner; in a confused, jumbled or uncontrolled state.
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 restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit" [syn: amok]
in a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones" [syn: amok, murderously]
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.