AMUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amuck mean? 

• AMUCK (adjective)
  The adjective AMUCK has 1 sense:

1. wildly frenzied and out of control

  Familiarity information: AMUCK used as an adjective is very rare.

• AMUCK (adverb)
  The adverb AMUCK has 2 senses:

1. wildly; without self-control

2. in a murderous frenzy

  Familiarity information: AMUCK used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMUCK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wildly frenzied and out of control

Synonyms:

amok; amuck; berserk

Context example:

a berserk worker smashing windows

Similar:

agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)

• AMUCK (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wildly; without self-control

Synonyms:

amok; amuck

Context example:

when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a murderous frenzy

Synonyms:

amok; amuck; murderously

Context example:

rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones

Pertainym:

amuck (wildly frenzied and out of control)

 Context examples 

So it was with the CASSANDRA, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies; so it was with the old WALRUS, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink with gold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)