different between violence vs amok

English

Etymology

From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va??l?ns/, /?va?l?ns/
• (obsolete or poetic) IPA^(key): /?va???l?ns/, /?va??l?ns/
• Rhymes: -a??l?ns, -a?l?ns

Noun

violence (countable and uncountable, plural violences)

1. Extreme force.

2. Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.

3. Widespread fighting.

4. (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
   • 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change

     Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]

5. (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

Antonyms

• (action intended to cause destruction, pain or suffering): peace, nonviolence

Hypernyms

• (extreme force): force

Related terms

• violent
• violate
• violation

Translations

See also

• domestic violence
• reverse domestic violence

Verb

violence (third-person singular simple present violences, present participle violencing, simple past and past participle violenced)

1. (nonstandard) To subject to violence.
   • 1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE ?ISBN, page 36:

     The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position  ...

   • 2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse ?ISBN, page 24:

     And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.

   • 2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press ?ISBN, page 46:

     He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.

References

• violence at OneLook Dictionary Search
• violence in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "violence" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 329.
• violence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from the adjective violentus, see violent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vj?.l??s/
• Homophone: violences

Noun

violence f (plural violences)

1. (uncountable) violence
2. (countable) act of violence

Synonyms

• ardeur
• brutalité
• force
• fougue
• fureur
• sévices
• virulence

Antonyms

• douceur

Derived terms

• faire violence

Related terms

• violemment
• violent
• violenter

Further reading

• “violence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense

Etymology

From Old French violence, from Latin violentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /vi?l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l?ns(?)/

Noun

violence (uncountable)

1. Violence (harmful manual force) or an example of it.
2. A harmful force of nature; great natural force.
3. Divine or religious force or strength.
4. The force or power of one's feelings or mental state.
5. Powerful or forceful movement or mobility.
6. Misrule or malgovernance; abuse of authority.
7. (rare) Beneficial manual force.
8. (rare) The strength of an ache.
9. (rare) The whims of chance.

Descendants

• English: violence

References

• “v??olence, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin violentia.

Noun

violence f (oblique plural violences, nominative singular violence, nominative plural violences)

1. violence
2. act of violence

Descendants

• ? Middle English: violence, violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense
  • English: violence
• French: violence

English

Alternative forms

• amuck, amock

Etymology

From Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

The term first appeared in English around the 16th century, associated with the people of Malaysia and Java, first described in the 1516 text "The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their Inhabitants", which was translated to English by Stanley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?k/, /??m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Adverb

amok (comparative more amok, superlative most amok)

1. Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
2. In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.

Usage notes

Almost exclusively used in the phrase run amok.

Derived terms

• run amok

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: amok
• ? Czech: amok
• ? Danish: amok (or directly from Dutch amok)
• ? Finnish: amok
• ? German: Amok
• ? Hebrew: ????? (ámok)
• ? Norwegian: amok
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ????
  • Latin: amok
• ? Swedish: amok

Translations

Noun

amok (plural amoks)

1. One who runs amok; in Malay and Moro/Philippine culture, one who attempts to kill many others, especially expecting that they will be killed themselves.
2. The act of running amok.

Verb

amok (third-person singular simple present amoks, present participle amoking, simple past and past participle amoked)

1. Synonym of run amok

References

• https://kbbi.web.id/amuk
• Duarte Barbosa, Mansel Longworth Dames, (1518) "The book of Duarte Barbosa: an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants", Asian Educational Services, 1989, ?ISBN
• Stanley, Henry E. J. ed. and trans. (1866) A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar by Duarte Barbosa?^[1], Hakluyt Society
• Dames, Mansel Longworth (1918–1921) The book of Duarte Barbosa : an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants (2 Volumes), Hakluyt Society, OCLC 3640216

Anagrams

• Kamo, Moak, Omak, mako, moka

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”). Displaced amog.

Verb

amok

1. to run amok

Noun

amok

1. one who runs amok

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

amok

1. a surf; waves that break on an ocean shoreline

Czech

Etymology

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

Noun

amok m

1. Condition of amok behaving.

Danish

Etymology

From English amok or from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

Adjective

amok

1. Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
2. In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.

Usage notes

Almost exclusively used in the phrase gå amok.

Derived terms

• gå amok

Related terms

• berserkergang

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay amuk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??m?k/
• Hyphenation: a?mok
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

amok n or m (plural amoks)

1. (historical, chiefly uncountable) A murderous frenzy, a killing spree in Malay culture.
2. (historical, countable) One who runs amok, someone who is on such a killing spree.

   Synonym: amokmaker

3. (uncountable) uproar, riot, noise

Derived terms

• amokmaker

Descendants

• ? Danish: amok (or through English amok)

Finnish

Etymology

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

Noun

amok

1. amok (one who runs amok)

Declension

Derived terms

• amokjuoksija
• amokjuoksu

Anagrams

• koma, mako, moka

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

Adverb

amok

1. amok

Derived terms

• gå amok
• løpe amok

Related terms

• berserkergang

References

• “amok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

Adverb

amok

1. amok

Derived terms

• gå amok

References

• “amok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.m?k/

Noun

amok m inan

1. running amok (act of behaving disruptively or uncontrollably)

   Synonym: sza?

2. running amok (act of going on a killing spree)
3. (colloquial) mania (violent derangement)

   Synonyms: mania, obsesja, szajba, sza?

Declension

Further reading

• amok in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• amok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

Noun

amok m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Condition of amok behaving.

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

• ?mok

Etymology

Borrowed from a Middle Persian source.

Noun

amok ?

1. art, artifice, craft

Derived terms

• amokä??e
• amoktse

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “amok”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 21