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/ social behaviour | | English term or phrase: to run amuck | | rioters running amuck in the streets |
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Manuel Cedeño Berrueta
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4 mins confidence:  
8 mins confidence: manifestarse, engendrar caos
Explanation:
As in "jovenes manifestandose caoticamente/anarquicamente por las calles" or "manifestantes engendrando caos en las calles."
There are other possibilities as well.
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19 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 freneticamente
Explanation:
From Encarta Dictionary:
a·mok [ múk , mók ] or a·muck [ múk ] adjective
out of control: frenzied and out of control
adverb
1. out of control: in a very frenzied way rioters running amok
2. confusedly: in or into a confused or disorganised state
[Early 16th century. Directly or via Portuguese am(o)uco "homicidally violent Malay" from Malay amuk "fighting frenziedly."]
Hi Carlos,
I'll leave the translation of this expression to the native speakers, but the meaning is described above. Coincidentally, 'Amok' is the title of one of my favorite novellas by Stephan Zweig. In the novella, set in Malasya, the author describes how the Amok demon takes possession of a westerner doctor in the form of an amour fou.
The origin of the expression then points to "L'amok, en Malaisie, est celui qui, pris de frénésie sanguinaire, court devant lui, détruisant hommes et choses, sans qu'on puisse rien faire pour le sauver".
Don't think I helped much, but I hope it was interesting!
BTW, nice to meet you at the Cafe Tortoni!
Cheers
ME
Reference: http://perso.club-internet.fr/joel79/livres/europe/zweig/amo...
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28 mins confidence: descontrolados / con total descontrol / en medio de un total descontrol
Explanation:
¡Hola, Carlos!
No sé cómo está armada la frase, ni estrictamente quiénes son los "rioters", pero suponiendo que fueran manifestantes diría algo así como que "los manifestantes recorrían las calles descontrolados", o vería la posibilidad de armar alguna otra frase similar (como las que te sugiero arriba), pero creo que la idea de run amuck la daría con la palabra "descontrol".
HTH
Andrea
experiencia propia
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
6 hrs confidence: los revoltosos atravesaron la ciudad destruyéndolo todo
Explanation:
En el caso que rioters no este bien definido. Flata un poco de contexto pero ojala te sirva
Abrazos
V
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