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Adjective
/bərˈzərk/,/-ˈsərk/,
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(of a person or animal) Out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied,
  1. (of a person or animal) Out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied
    • - after she left him, he went berserk, throwing things about the apartment
  2. (of a mechanical device or system) Operating in a wild or erratic way; out of control
    • - the climate control went berserk and either roasted or froze us
  3. (of a procedure, program, or activity) Fluctuating wildly
    • - the stock market's gone berserk, with sugar at 15.27 cents a pound
  1. amuck: frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"
  2. berserker: one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury
  3. Berserk! (1967) is a thriller feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, and Judy Geeson in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a circus plagued with murders. The screenplay was written by Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel, and the film directed by Jim O'Connolly. Berserk! ...
  4. Berserk is a young adult novel by Ally Kennen, published in 2007. It has been shortlisted for the 2008 Manchester Book Award and longlisted for the 2008 Carnegie Medal. Like Beast and Bedlam, there will be a new edition of the book in May which features a new cover.
  5. Berserkers (or berserks) were Norse warriors who are reported in the Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word berserk. Berserkers are attested in numerous Old Norse sources. ...
  6. A crazed Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy; Injuriously, maniacally, or furiously violent or out of control
  7. frenzied violence or destruction, as in wild and unrestrained abandon ... often expressed as "going tropical" or "going bananas". ...
  8. (ber ZURK) adj. 1. Destructively or frenetically violent. 2. Deranged.
  9. An alpaca  who was afforded too much affection by humans as a newborn cria and has shown aggerssion towards them at one time or another as an adult.  In times of aggression it is said that they went berserk.
  10. A nordic war tribe that was said to be able to change into bears in a fight. The word translates to "skin of a bear", probably bear pelts were part of their war clothes.
  11. A Gaunt Flayer has a cumultive 5% chance per round of combat to go berserk as the soulstuff of which it is composed becomes cognizant of its unholy condition. ...
  12. Scandinavian term referring to battle-madness that overcame warriors.  May have been induced by hallucinogenic mushrooms (fly aleric).
  13. Sometimes a Brute goes on a rampage nicknamed "berserking". The Norse had warriors, called Berserkers, who were followers of the cult of Odin (the one-eyed Norse god of war) and believed in the importance of a warrior dying heroically in battle rather than shamefully in his bed. ...
  14. Gaston, Additional Voices