| 单词 | to run amok |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run (also occasionally go) amok 1. to run (also occasionally go) amok.In this use, still sometimes in the (formerly prevalent) form amuck. extracted from amokadv.adj. a. To run about in a violent or murderous frenzy; to go on a killing spree or a destructive rampage. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer from frenzy or raging awedeeOE to tear (out) the hairc1330 to run amok1672 amoka1811 to go berserk1917 to do one's (occasionally the) nut1919 to go bush1933 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > behave violently or use force [verb (intransitive)] > behave with reckless or riotous violence to make derayc1300 reelc1400 rampc1405 rammisha1540 to run amok1672 rampage1791 tevel1828 wild1989 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 59 Like a raging Indian..he runs a mucke (as they cal it there) stabbing every man he meets. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. xii. 289 Jealousy of the women is the usual reason of these poor creatures running amock (or a-muck). 1817 T. S. Raffles Hist. Java I. vi. 298 The accounts of the wars of the Javans, as well as of the Malayus, abound with instances of warriors running amok. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem i. xxii. 81 If the laborious ox..was seen..running amuck and sending man, woman and child to the hospital by dint of horn or hoof. 1933 L. Ainsworth Confessions Planter in Malaya vii. 75 The reason for the headlong retreat was a Bengali who had run ‘amok’... He had already killed two persons outright. 1969 Black Belt Feb. 66/3 Today, someone can go amok and hack down a few people. 2002 M. Savage Savage Nation vii. 140 I never killed a soul... I never ran amok and shot anybody. b. figurative. To run wild or out of control; to run riot; to rush headlong. Also with at, against, with, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adverb] > rashly or recklessly recklesslyeOE abandonc1330 rabbishlya1387 recklessa1450 savagelyc1450 temerarilyc1450 temerously1461 rashly?1518 temerariously1535 improvisedlya1538 hare-brainedlya1577 rash1591 wretchlessly?16.. over-rashly1609 bayardly1624 to run amok1689 harum-scarum1691 hell-bent1863 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adverb] > with reckless or riotous violence rampantlya1475 to run amok1689 rampageously1840 1689 E. Hickeringill Speech Without-doors i. 2 Running a Muck at all Mankind. 1733 A. Pope 1st Satire 2nd Bk. Horace Imitated 11 I'm too discreet To run a Muck, and tilt at all I meet. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 186 I..might have run ‘amok’ against society; but I preferred that society should run ‘amok’ against me. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxx. 145 Ready to run a muck with any one who crossed him. 1918 Bookman Feb. 655/2 The biologisers have run amuck in attempting to carry over into human institutions..the ‘survival of the fittest’ theory. 1941 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 10 448/1 To ‘defend’ democracy with the spirit of liberty gone amuck in arrogance and race pride is to consign our democracy to further centuries of stultification. 1971 Daily Tel. 28 July 11 Cardin has run amok..with the tucking and tiering attachments on his sewing machine. 2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Apr. a21/1 Having a new cold virus running amuck that can superinfect people with an untreatable pneumonia is definitely bad news. < as lemmas |
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