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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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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.
The weeds and rampant vegetation seem to be dying off, as if the owner has run amok with a weedkiller can a few years too late.
Occasionally along comes an example of populism run amok the critics can sink their teeth into.
A secret surveillance operation has exposed a catalogue of crime as gangs of youths run amok on the streets of a troubled York estate.
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.

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