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berserking

berserking is the present participle and gerund 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 berserking

What is berserking the present participle and gerund of?
Berserking is the present participle and gerund of berserk.

Words near berserking in the dictionary

  1. Berserkeley
  2. berserker
  3. berserker hypothesis
  4. berserkergang
  5. berserkers
  6. berserking
  7. berserkly
  8. berserkness
  9. berserko
  10. berserks
  11. Bershad

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