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Word of the Day for Saturday, June 19, 2010 amok \uh-MUHK\, adjective: 1. In or into a jumbled or confused state. 2. In or into an uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity. 3. In a frenzy to do violence or kill. noun: 1. A psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder. There's a legend that when the Lumiere brothers - pioneers of motion pictures - showed their film of an approaching train in 1896, the audience ran amok in terror. -- Claire O'Neill, "Autochromes: The First Flash Of Color", NPR With fiscal affairs amok, North Dakota higher education is experiencing its third major scandal since statehood. -- Lloyd Omdahl, "Omdahl: Restraint the best recipe", Inforum Amok enters English from the Malay amuk, "attacking furiously." The word was adopted into Portugese as amouco. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help
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