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- Dictionaryberserk/bə(ː)ˈzəːk/
adjective
- 1. out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied: "a man went berserk with an arsenal of guns"
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In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English word berserk, meaning 'furiously violent or out of control'. Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources. Wikipedia