Amuck Definition

ə-mŭk
adverb
In a frenzy to do violence or kill.
Rioters running amuck in the streets.
American Heritage
In or into a jumbled or confused state.
The plans went amuck.
American Heritage
In or into an uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity.
American Heritage

In a frantic or frenzied and violent manner; in a confused, jumbled or uncontrolled state.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Crazed with murderous frenzy.
Amuck troops.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun

Amok.

Webster's New World

Origin of Amuck

  • Malay amok

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Amuck Sentence Examples

  • Drunkenness is rare, but they are passionate, and running amuck is frequent among them.

  • Rock, roll and run amuck on an adult party cruise.

  • This here's the phone number of the current muck amuck.

  • Yet in reality, five individuals, some joined by love, some nearly strangers and others with a history, that might surface and run amuck.

  • Much has been written concerning the acts of homicidal mania called amuck (amok), which word in the vernacular means to attack.

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Words Ending With

KCKUCK

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