Illustration: On a narrow shopping street in Japan, a cyclist races recklessly between pedestrians with shopping bags swinging from the handlebars. His front wheel swerves toward stacked vegetable crates as he struggles to regain balance.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

暴ぼう走そう

bousou

to run wild, to act recklessly

Example sentences

戦闘せんとうロボＪＡは暴走ぼうそうした。
The battle robot JA went berserk.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
また，暴走ぼうそう族ぞくの出現しゅつげんも問題もんだいとなった。
The emergence of motorcycle gangs also became a social issue.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
警察けいさつは暴走ぼうそう族ぞくを躍起やっきになって鎮圧ちんあつしようとしている。
The police are going all out to keep down the rioting bikers.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 暴走

暴outburst; raveOnボウ・バクKunあばく・あばれる
走runOnソウKunはしる

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