adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
run
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I think Mum worried that I might run amok and stick my penknife straight into Katie.
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There is the pop psychology of the day, run amok .
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There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s, with stone-throwing anarchists running amok .
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In court, several boys testified that roaches ran amok inside their apartment.
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With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.
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The Zekes come in against the line of P-40s, one runs amok as others erupt in flames.
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In the same area, a farmer was trampled to death by his cattle, a vicar ran amok in his church.
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Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok , threatening everyone.
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I think Mum worried that I might run amok and stick my penknife straight into Katie.
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There is the pop psychology of the day, run amok .
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There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s, with stone-throwing anarchists running amok .
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With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.