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Grammar : Verb

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Définition of run amok

As in rebel : verb refuse to obey
As in cut loose : verb let loose
As in foam at the mouth : verb be uncontrollably angry
As in run riot : verb run wild

Example sentences :

He would, in fact, run amok; for it looked as if there could be no way out of the situation.
Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad

I was simply a Dutchman that had got riled and had run amok.
Extract from : « Greenmantle » by John Buchan

This horrid stuff gives the maddening excitement which makes a Malay run amok (which see).
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

Vehicles would have run amok, and the result would have been an indescribable chaos of the maimed, mangled and distraught.
Extract from : « The Mystery of the Green Ray » by William Le Queux

That three hundred pounds was composed of too much muscle and too little fat for Sam Bending to allow it to run amok.
Extract from : « Damned If You Don't » by Gordon Randall Garrett

If you run amok in Malaya, you may kill your enemy or your dearest friend, but you will be krissed in the end like a pariah dog.
Extract from : « Tales of the Malayan Coast » by Rounsevelle Wildman

Soames had done for him—done for him by that act of property that had sent the Buccaneer to run amok that fatal afternoon.
Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Complete » by John Galsworthy

And that's just what he was; for he was a major, who could run amok like any second lieutenant, and he was forty, if a day.
Extract from : « Tell England » by Ernest Raymond

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