Verb
run amok (third-person singular simple present runs amok, present participle running amok, simple past ran amok, past participle run amok)
(idiomatic) To go on a rampage; to be in an uncontrollable rage.
Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better melody in the April woods at dawn than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch? Robert Bridges
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. Tom Scholz
You can help me to keep my head cool," was the answer. "You stand for the world of common sense which will always win in the long run. When I'm inclined to run amok you'll remind me of England. You'll lower the temperature. John Buchan
We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience. Larisa Alexandrovna
Are you inviting them to come and create trouble there by announcing that there is no police here so you can run amok safely? Narendra Modi
There are three [Apple Watch] lineups that range in price from "just" $350 for an Apple Sport stripper model with low-end materials to an astonishing $17,000 for an 18 karat gold silly version. As I noted on Twitter, this isn't consumer electronics anymore. It's consumerism run amok. Paul Thurrott