"go berserk" meaning in All languages combined

See go berserk on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: goes berserk [present, singular, third-person], going berserk [participle, present], went berserk [past], gone berserk [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> berserk}} go berserk (third-person singular simple present goes berserk, present participle going berserk, simple past went berserk, past participle gone berserk)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To enter a wild and uncontrollable state. Tags: idiomatic, informal Synonyms: berserk#Verb, go crazy
    Sense id: en-go_berserk-en-verb-FntPNo9S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2006 January 13, Felix Gillette, “The Gloater”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-22:",
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          "ref": "2020 October 18, Masha Gessen, “Alexey Navalny Has the Proof of His Poisoning”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-28:",
          "text": "Let's say I touch my own hand with my finger. My brain can perceive that signal and then cancel it out. But Novichok makes it not get cancelled out, so it feels like I'm touching my own hand a million times a second, and every cell in my body goes berserk, and the brain understands that this is the end.",
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          "text": "As we exited the observatory's parking lot, the truck's computer monitor started bleeping angrily. Before we reached the main road, we picked up 13 wireless signals. Within a half mile, we found 66 signals. Niday's gadgetry was going berserk.",
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