as in frantically
in a confused and reckless manner
the familiar scene in horror movies where everyone runs berserk as the monster destroys everything in sight
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Recent Examples of berserk
Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
Which, of course, drove the audience completely berserk.
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Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
19 Nov. 2023
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
The crowd in Rio went berserk, and social media melted.
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Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
7 May 2026
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Adjective
But that was before Watkins suffered a season-ending ACL tear and before UConn star Paige Bueckers went absolutely berserk, scoring 40 in the Sweet 16.
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Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
Which, of course, drove the audience completely berserk.
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Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
19 Nov. 2023
Noun
Peer in on the New York team making a medium-to-deep run in the playoffs as every New Yorker in your life goes berserk.
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Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
The crowd in Rio went berserk, and social media melted.
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Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for berserk
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The Melodies of the Danube itinerary connects Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, and the Wachau Valley coherently rather than frantically.
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Mount Baldy made headlines in 2013 when a 6-year-old boy was suddenly swallowed by the dune, prompting rescues to frantically dig him out.
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The Choe Hyon destroyer, first unveiled in April last year, is equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-ship weapons and can carry nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles, KCNA said.
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However, Haaland made up for it quickly in the second half, and the crowd in New Jersey went ballistic for the Manchester City product.
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My father used a powerful glue to reassemble the cowboy, which twenty-five years later still smelled like orange peels.
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Baby chicks, resplendent in all of their downy softness, were a huge draw, and there was the promise of a cowboy performance with bucking broncos to highlight the rise of the American cowboy.
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Advertisement But the recent surge of new groups has confused CEOs, donors, and other key constituencies by pursuing often wildly divergent messages and contradictory agendas, inadvertently establishing circular firing squads, undermining unity, and siphoning resources from credible expert voices.
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Instead of mixing the margarita in a cocktail shaker, simply add the ingredients to a blender to blitz them into a dilution-free watermelon-tequila cocktail that’s wildly refreshing.
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That agreement set a 60-day period for negotiations on key issues, including the future of Tehran’s nuclear program amid concerns that Iran wants to use it for military purposes, a claim the country denies.
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Tackling supply bottlenecks According to Orbital, the same manufacturing platform can produce components for solid rocket motors, hypersonic vehicles, missile defense interceptors, space systems, jet engines, and nuclear microreactors.
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Ozzy was the madman up front, usually singing brooding lyrics written by Geezer.
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Verbinski’s latest, a genre-bending sci-fi that sees Sam Rockwell as a time-travelling madman recruiting help to save humanity from the threat of artificial intelligence, led the director to take a deep dive into new tools.
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Two more runs scored in the fourth inning when Ohtani, Pages and Freeman strung together three consecutive two-out singles and Keller wild-pitched a run home.
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First, like cucumbers, squash is a wild-growing vegetable that competes for garden space, according to Dilmore.
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The defense argued that Bland had a psychotic episode due to a COVID infection.
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The experience in question was a psychotic break that Murray endured in 2017 after spending several months involved with a wellness cult, coming to believe herself capable of powerful healing abilities.
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“Berserk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/berserk. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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