Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - amok
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If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way. A soldier was arrested after running amok with a vehicle through Berlin. PHRASE: V inflects AMONG Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: The form 'amongst' is also used, but is more literary. 1. Someone or something that is situated or moving among a group of things or people is surrounded by them. They walked among the crowds in Red Square. ...a little house among the trees. PREP 2. If you are among people of a particular kind, you are with them and having contact with them. Things weren’t so bad, after all. I was among friends again... I was brought up among people who read and wrote a lot. PREP 3. If someone or something is among a group, they are a member of that group and share its characteristics. A fifteen year old girl was among the injured... Also among the speakers was the new American ambassador to Moscow. PREP 4. If you want to focus on something that is happening within a particular group of people, you can say that it is happening among that group. Unemployment is quite high, especially among young people. PREP 5. If something happens among a group of people, it happens within the whole of that group or between the members of that group. I am sick of all the quarrelling among politicians who should be concentrating on vital issues. PREP 6. If something such as a feeling, opinion, or situation exists among a group of people, most of them have it or experience it. The biggest fear among parents thinking of using the Internet is that their children will be exposed to pornography... PREP 7. If something applies to a particular person or thing among others, it also applies to other people or things. ...a news conference attended among others by our foreign affairs correspondent... PREP 8. If something is shared among a number of people, some of it is given to all of them. Most of the furniture was left to the neighbours or distributed among...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun or amuck Etymology: Malay ~ Date: 1665 a murderous frenzy that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture II. adverb or amuck Date: 1672 1. in a murderously frenzied state 2. a. in a violently raging manner a virus that had run ~ b. in an undisciplined, uncontrolled, or faulty manner films…about computers run ~ — People III. adjective or amuck Date: 1944 possessed with or motivated by a murderous or violently uncontrollable frenzy ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adv. (also amuck) Phrases and idioms run amok run about wildly in an uncontrollable violent rage. Etymology: Malay amok rushing in a frenzy ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. амок, приступообразное нарушение сознания; приступ непреодолимого влечения к убийству 2. бешеный, озверевший 3. вышедший из-под контроля; неудержимый 4. бешено, безудержно to run amok —- быть охваченным безудержным желанием убивать; бешеный; выйти из-под контроля; стать неуправляемым our spending has run amok —- мы тратили деньги направо и налево a virus that has run amok —- вирус, с которым никак не удается справиться ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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