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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



... big servo-pilot took off for 22A like a berserk robot and we were right behind him. We watched him tear open his old locker and gently lay out the girl's mech's parts so he could study them. After a minute or two he gave a long sigh and said, "Fortunately it's not as bad as I thought. I believe I can fix her." Frank worked hard over ...
— The Love of Frank Nineteen • David Carpenter Knight

... "Come, love, come!" which interrupted the proceedings for some moments, while the chairman, standing up and waving both his arms, seemed to be conducting the music. The Professor, with his face flushed, his nostrils dilated, and his beard bristling, was now in a proper Berserk mood.) "Every great discoverer has been met with the same incredulity—the sure brand of a generation of fools. When great facts are laid before you, you have not the intuition, the imagination which would help you to understand them. You can only ...
— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

... baffled Richard's conception of the man concerning whom all who read papers had heard so much. Was this indolent individual that inveterate man-hunter who, with courage of berserk and strength of steel, had pulled down his quarry in the midst of desperate criminals, and then, victim in clutch, cleared his path through? Something of this may have glimmered in Richard's eye; if so, Inspector Val assumed to have no hint of it, and busied himself ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis

... immature that even callow Tom Dixon had seemed experienced beside her. Now she was a young woman in bloom, instinctively sure of herself, even without experience to guide her. Though he had never said so, she knew quite well that this berserk of the plains had begun to love her with all the strength of his untamed heart. She would have been less than human had it not pleased her, even though, at the same time, ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine

... Sprang up at one swift bound; Black-bearded berserk, bloody, And fiercely looked around. "Now, I will prove," he thunders, "What rumor means by this, That all blades Fridthjof sunders, And never ...
— Fridthjof's Saga • Esaias Tegner



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



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