Usually means: Running wildly; out of control.
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  1. amok: Merriam-Webster
  2. amok: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amok: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amok: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amok: Vocabulary.com
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  7. amok: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amok: Wiktionary
  9. amok: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amok (amuck): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amok: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. amok: Dictionary.com
  13. amok: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. amok: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. amok: Rhymezone
  17. amok: FreeDictionary.org
  18. amok: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. amok: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. amok: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. amok: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Amok: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. amok: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Amok: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. amok: Medical dictionary
  6. Amok: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. AMOK: Acronym Finder
  2. amok: A Word A Day
  3. amok: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Amok: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. amok: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amok)

adverb:  Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
adverb:  In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.
noun:  One who runs amok; in Malay and Moro/Philippine culture, one who attempts to kill many others, especially expecting that they will be killed themselves.
noun:  The act of running amok.
verb:  Synonym of run amok
noun:  (Cambodia) A kind of Southeast Asian curry steamed in banana leaves that native to Cambodia.

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