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What does run amok mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To go on a rampage; to be in an uncontrollable rage.
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Individuals should not be allowed to run amok insulting and using abusive language against one another.
As for the bittering agent, the industry warned that it would put rats off the bait, leaving them to run amok in the nation's cities.
But Scrushy's incompetence went far beyond allowing a den of thieves to run amok in the finance department.
Chaos is a calm Goddess, who loves to work with Existence to create things and let them run amok on their own.
The moms sit in the kitchen drinking strong coffee and sharing pie and good conversation while the kids all run amok.
A secret surveillance operation has exposed a catalogue of crime as gangs of youths run amok on the streets of a troubled York estate.

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