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Berserk   /bərsˈərk/   Listen
Berserk

noun
1.
One of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury.  Synonym: berserker.






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"Berserk" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand, could feel the muscles of his arm stiffen under the sleeve. He held the stranger's eye defiantly for a space. The latter laughed insolently if silently. It was more for Elsa's sake than for his own that Warrington allowed the other to stare him down. Alone, he would have surrendered to the Berserk rage that urged him to leap across the intervening space and annihilate the man, to crush him with his bare hands until he screamed for the mercy he had always denied others. The flame passed, leaving him as cold as ashes. "I shall tell you who he is later; ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath

... into her, while the single strange man holding Daisy herself was doing so quite decorously—a circumstance which afforded Gusterson minor relief, since it made him feel less guilty about not going berserk. ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber



Words linked to "Berserk" :   Norse, Northman, Scandinavian, insane, possessed



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