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berserked

berserked is the simple past and past participle of berserk.

Meaning of berserk

Verb

berserk (third-person singular simple present berserks, present participle berserking, simple past and past participle berserked)

  1. (intransitive) To be or become berserk.
    • When great champions went berserking and were angry, they lost their human nature and went mad like dogs.1899 April, G[ranville] Stanley Hall, “A Study of Anger”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume X, number 3, Worcester, Mass.: Clark University, […] Louis N. Wilson, […], page 522
    Synonyms:
    go berserk
  2. (transitive) To make berserk.
    • He neither knows himself nor his outriders; he berserks a fearful dimension and dismounts, miraculously, in bed!1937, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, New Directions Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, page 87

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Questions about berserked

What is berserked the simple past and past participle of?
Berserked is the simple past and past participle of berserk.

Words near berserked in the dictionary

  1. Berseba
  2. berseem
  3. berseems
  4. berserk
  5. berserk llama syndrome
  6. berserked
  7. Berserkeley
  8. berserker
  9. berserker hypothesis
  10. berserkergang
  11. berserkers

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