Definitions for amoks

amoks a·mok

Spelling: [uh-muhk, uh-mok]
IPA: /əˈmʌk, əˈmɒk/

Amoks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in amoks (akmos).

Definitions for amoks

noun

  1. (among members of certain Southeast Asian cultures) a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder.

Idioms

  1. run / go amok. amuck (def 3).

adjective

  1. amuck.

Origin of amoks

First recorded in 1865-70, amok is from the Malay word amuk

Examples for amoks

These unfortunates were sometimes attacked by the amok frenzy.

It is as well that the amok has no weapons other than his knife.

Much has been written concerning the acts of homicidal mania called amuck (amok), which word in the vernacular means to attack.

Adī pay, amok di anap, ut amui kayo ūnda agou un Boan tan daeda dimangamo si anap.

Placido was by this time under the influence of the amok, as the Malayists say.

They had her give the weather update, and even let her mangle the word “amok.”

What if that man should take umbrage at some fancied slight to his honour or disregard of his affections and suddenly “amok”?

Such is the “amok” of the Malays—a sort of furious and imitative madness perhaps provoked at the same time by suggestion.

Alive, yet dead, he lay there, much as the amok Malay of fifty years before had lain upon the deck of the Silver Fleece.

Word Value for amoks
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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