amok

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It is genocide that is said to be violence run amok, amoral, evil.

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  1. adverb Variant of amuck.

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  • Like one of Moreau's creatures, he appeared the result of a genetic experiment run amok -- a giant sloth whose DNA had been snipped, tortured together with that of a man's and then taped and stapled. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • Amuck , more properly spelled amok , comes from the Malay word amok , meaning "a state of murderous frenzy." —  The Word Detective
  • In English, the word amok dates back to the sixteenth century and the first contacts between Europeans and the inhabitants of Malaysia. —  The Word Detective
  • Edmund was running amok, and now it would be war to the knife with the Welsh. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 02 - August 1999
  • Some blamed it on an arms race run amok, a new weapon that ripped open the fabric of realspace and created the Fissure, a three-dimensional rectangle of light. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
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  1. Malay āmok, āmoq, pron. ä′mọ̄k or ä′mọ̄h: see amuck.
 

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