English
Pronunciation
Verb
run amok (third-person singular simple present runs amok, present participle running amok, simple past ran amok, past participle run amok)
- (idiomatic) To go on a rampage; to be in an uncontrollable rage.
- Synonyms: amok, go berserk, go postal
- Hypernym: run riot
Translations
run amok
- Arabic: جُنَّ (junna)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 胡作非為 / 胡作非为 (zh) (húzuòfēiwéi), 橫衝直撞 / 横冲直撞 (zh) (héngchōngzhízhuàng)
- Czech: vyvádět impf, šílet impf, řádit impf
- 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
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