Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic English) To go on a rampage; to be in an uncontrollable rage. vb. (context idiomatic English) To go on a rampage; to be in an uncontrollable rage.
Usage examples of "run amok".
Citizen Boyne, who had run amok and slaughtered the baker, shared Tropile's room and his doom, but not his rage.
The main thing he feared in this life -- even worse than Queers and Jews and Mutants -- was people who might run amok.
HST: He's deceptively mild in public, although every once in a while he'll run amok.
One of the Bondels suddenly appeared to run amok: stood upright, waving a spear, and began to run toward the nearest part of the advancing cordon.
Just about then a detail of Shore Patrolmen and civilian police entered, dragging a boatswain's mate about seven feet tall who had run amok, under the impression he was King Kong, the well-known ape.
And I promise I'll comfort my premature old age with the idea that there really is a place somewhere on the pocky face of Mother Earth where people don't kill each other and don't run amok and generally behave like decent people should.
Some considered it an example of Reason run amok, an unreflec-tive Vicar, worshiping at the wrong Altar, having convinced local Cheesemen to pool their efforts in accomplishing the feat.