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berserk

UK /ˈbɜːsɜːk/US /ˈbɚˌsɚk/

adjective 3
verb 2
noun 1
forms 5
phrases 1

adjective3

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Furiously, injuriously, or maniacally violent or out of control.
- After seeing his sister stabbed to death, he went berserk and attacked the killer like a wild animal.
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(slang) Wildly joyous; ecstatic.
- In amongst the strife, Scott McTominay, whose stoppage-time winner against Israel sent Hampden berserk, and Ryan Christie offered signs of an attacking pulse. — 2021
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Bizarre; weird.
- [T]he writer conjured up a dystopian fantasy more berserk than anything you might find yourself listening to in the small hours at the Stone Circle. — 2017

verb2

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To be or become berserk.
- When great champions went berserking and were angry, they lost their human nature and went mad like dogs. — 1899
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To make berserk.
- He neither knows himself nor his outriders; he berserks a fearful dimension and dismounts, miraculously, in bed! — 1937

noun1

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(historical) Synonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”).
- She had heard of his profligacy, his bursts of fierce Berserk-madness; and yet now these very faults, instead of repelling, seemed to attract her, and intensify her longing to save him. — 1848

forms

berserked · berserking · berserks · more berserk · most berserk

Phrases with berserk

go berserk
To enter a wild and uncontrollable state.

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