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Meanings of amok in English
Portuguese
sem controle Spanish
de forma asesina Synonyms
Examples for "murderously"
Examples for "murderously"
1
Nostalgia can be a murderously dangerous beast, especially when visited on celluloid.
2
The skyrail went murderously slack, whiplashed down across two miles of city.
3
How could she look so ethereal while her eyes drooped so murderously?
4
They had not yet come full; they were not murderously sucking his colour.
5
The thing that had played so murderously with the armored men.
Usage of amok in English
1
The dangers of Los Angeles, of democracy run amok, were locked out.
2
And now they were running amok, messing with powers better left untested.
3
Ascertain whether his madness is feigned, or whether his tapirs run amok.
4
Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill soon found the boundaries without running amok.
5
Costa Rica have completely taken over in midfield and are running amok.
6
It is better to accept it than run amok among inexplicable infinities.
7
The radio phone-ins run amok with the guaranteed firestorm of racial bait.
8
He felt as he imagined madmen did when about to run amok.
9
They look like domesticated sprites and imps, running amok inside a kitchen.
10
Here was Death, sure enough-MechanicalDeath run amok-butwhere was the glory?
11
The terrified creature was then spotted running amok in the town's streets.
12
Many think they are going to die, go mad or run amok.
13
This is just the latest example of political correctness run amok.
14
Investors can, however, ensure Neumann is the last founder able to run amok.
15
He described a surveillance state run amok and vowed to rein it in.
16
It has done precisely the same wherever it is allowed to run amok.
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Translations for amok
Portuguese
Amok through the time
Amok across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common