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Amuck   /əmˈək/   Listen
Amuck

adverb
1.
Wildly; without self-control.  Synonym: amok.
2.
In a murderous frenzy.  Synonyms: amok, murderously.






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"Amuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... muslin-clad women and flower-hung windows. "It isn't often I dare trust myself up here. Makes me feel as though I'd like to go amongst those sauntering swells and mincing ladies in their muslins and laces, and parasols, and run amuck amongst them—send them down like a pack of ninepins. Aye, I'd send them ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... and pair, white-haired butler—everything correct, except myself. It was of no use. I can hold myself in for a month or two; then I break out, the old original savage that I am under my frock coat. I feel I must run amuck, stabbing, hacking at the prim, smiling Lies mincing round about me. I can fool a silly woman for half-a-dozen visits; bow and rub my hands, purr round her sympathetically. All the while I am longing to ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome



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