'AMOK' definitions:
Definition of 'amok'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Wildly; without self-control; "when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit" [syn: amok, amuck]
adverb
In a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones" [syn: amok, amuck, murderously]
adjective
Frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows" [syn: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)]
Definition of 'amok'
From: Hitchcock
- Amok, a valley; a depth
Synonyms of 'amok'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- attack,
- bacchic,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- carried away,
- convulsion,
- corybantic,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- desperate,
- Dionysiac,
- distracted,
- ecstatic,
- enraptured,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fever,
- fierce,
- fit,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- frenzy,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- furor,
- fury,
- haggard,
- hog-wild,
- howling,
- hysterical,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- intoxicated,
- like one possessed,
- mad,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- murderous insanity,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- paroxysm,
- possessed,
- psychokinesia,
- rabid,
- rage,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- roaring,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- seizure,
- spasm,
- stark-raving mad,
- storming,
- transported,
- uncontrollable,
- violent,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking
Acronyms for 'amok'
From: V.E.R.A.
- A Modular Operating Kernel (OS, Cray)