run amok

English

Alternative forms

• run amuck

Pronunciation

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Verb

run amok (third-person singular simple present runs amok, present participle running amok, simple past ran amok, past participle run amok)

1. (idiomatic) To go on a rampage; to be in an uncontrollable rage.

Synonyms

• amok
• go berserk
• go postal

Translations

run amok

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡作非為／胡作非为 (zh) (húzuòfēiwéi), 橫衝直撞／横冲直撞 (zh) (héngchōngzhízhuàng)

• Danish: gå amok
• Finnish: riehua (fi), olla valtoimenaan
• French: perdre le contrôle (fr), (informal) péter un câble (fr)
• German: Amok laufen
• Greek: παθαίνω αμόκ (pathaíno amók)
• Italian: andare fuori controllo
• Latvian: skriet amoka skrējienā
• Malay: mengamuk
• Norwegian: gå amok
• Romanian: a o lua razna
• Russian: обезу́меть (ru) pf (obezúmetʹ), неи́стовствовать (ru) impf (neístovstvovatʹ), бу́йствовать (ru) impf (bújstvovatʹ), быть вне себя́ (bytʹ vne sebjá)
• Spanish: correr a ciegas, enloquecerse (es)
• Swedish: löpa amok (sv), gå bärsärkagång (sv)
• Tagalog: mag-amok, magdilim ang paningin (literally “to have one's vision darkened”), maghuramentado

See also

• wreak havoc
• get medieval (shares a semantic theme of going nuts violently)

Further reading

• running amok on Wikipedia.Wikipedia