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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
amuck
 
SYLLABICATION:a·muck
PRONUNCIATION:  -mk
VARIANT FORMS: also a·mok (  -mk, -mk)
ADVERB:1. In a frenzy to do violence or kill: rioters running amuck in the streets. 2. In or into a jumbled or confused state: The plans went amuck. 3. In or into a uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity: “This jam-packed area of Honolulu has come to stand for tourist development run amok” (Ila Stanger, Travel and Leisure November 1990).
ADJECTIVE: Crazed with murderous frenzy: amuck troops.
ETYMOLOGY:Malay amok.
 
 
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