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.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
There's one moment in the trailer that shows Wolverine slashing an enemy with multiple cuts before shoving his claws straight through his skull, confirming this game is going to embrace the violence and berserker rage of this character.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
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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.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
Which, of course, drove the audience completely berserk.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
Noun
No matter what absurdities the Gemstones perpetrated or endured, the series always offered them second chances — and opportunities for performers like Edi Patterson, Walton Goggins, and McBride himself to go berserk.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
There's one moment in the trailer that shows Wolverine slashing an enemy with multiple cuts before shoving his claws straight through his skull, confirming this game is going to embrace the violence and berserker rage of this character.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for berserk
Adverb
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The video shows another attendee — clad in Minnie Mouse ears and a Disney World jacket — frantically giving chest compressions to the fallen individual, whose current condition remains unclear.—
Jami Ganz,
Mercury News,
5 Dec. 2025
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The captain saw that Thompson had fallen and was frantically treading water.—
David Ulloa Jr,
AZCentral.com,
4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The $90 million is for new and amended grants to 56 county and city police departments for radios, body cameras, riot gear, ballistic helmets, X-ray machines, inmate restraint chairs and other items.—
Ana Goñi-Lessan,
Miami Herald,
9 June 2026
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The bill would cover only those incidents police confirm, which typically occurs when ballistic evidence is found at the scene or video shows the shooting.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
9 June 2026
Noun
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The 10-piece capsule includes styles showcasing full-bleed artwork and individual elements throughout, including fisherman, sunbather and cowboy motifs.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
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Magazine ads to promote the games showed a cowboy lassoing a football.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
9 June 2026
Adverb
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The show was named after one of these ships, The Terror (the second was The Erebus) and it’s all based on a true story, though wildly embellished both out of necessity and for entertainment purposes.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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On to the third, where the story continued to be the Golden Knights taking bad penalties, something that is wildly out of character for them.—
Matt Reigle,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Fusion reactions should produce abundant power while producing little to no nuclear waste, but such reactions have proved to be very difficult to sustain or scale up.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
11 Dec. 2025
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The director is aiming to start building a reconstruction of the nuclear test base in the desert between Timimoun and Tamanrasset in March 2026.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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When Sarah’s eyes moved from the map to the paper piling up in my writing nook marked with the chicken scratchings of a madman, her eyebrows arched to the highest point eyebrows can arch.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador, in the very place that inspired Charles Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution, a wild-growing species appears to have hit rewind.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Lamb's Quarters Lamb's quarters is a wild-growing green that's very high in calcium.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Royal Caribbean crew members also allegedly injected Haloperidol, a prescription medication used to treat psychotic disorders, into Virgil at the request of the ship's captain.—
Kiki Intarasuwan,
CBS News,
8 Dec. 2025
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Children with null variants were 87 times more likely to develop a psychotic disorder and six times more likely to have an anxiety disorder by age 12, and around 12 times more likely to develop a mood disorder by age 11.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Berserk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/berserk. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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