| 单词 | amok |
| 释义 | amok (once / 22134 pages) advadj You think Mittens the kitten is gentle and sweet, and then one day she runs amok, ripping up Grandma's favorite armchair until its cottony guts are hanging out. Time to take Mittens to get her claws trimmed. Most of our words are rooted in Greek, Latin, or German, so it's refreshing to see a word that arose in a whole different language: amok's origins are in the Malay language of Indonesia. In the 1500s, a Portuguese writer and explorer named Duarte Barbosa described a murderous tribe on the island of Java as the "Amuco," and the word passed on into English. Amuco came from Amuk, a Malay word meaning "attacking furiously." WORD FAMILYamok: amoks USAGE EXAMPLESToday there is no emergent virus running amok. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) As governor of Riyadh, Salman helped oversee the family, even maintaining a jail for young princes who ran amok. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) “It’s really an example of what’s wrong with our system. The system run amok,” Adachi said. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1adv wildly; without self-control Syn amuck 2adv in a murderous frenzy Syn amuck, murderously 3adj frenzied as if possessed by a demon Syn amuck, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement |
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