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run amok
verb as in cut loose
verb as in foam at the mouth
verb as in rebel
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Perhaps the real clowns losing face while their evil clones run amok.
His sexual life, just like his barbarism, was the result of deliberation, not appetites run amok.
Do they have a point, or are their complaints just anti-intellectualism run amok?
Tatum wears the shame(s) of a nation on his face in this quietly devastating portrait of the American dream run amok.
“When you have an executive who has run amok, it is the solution our Founding Fathers have laid out,” he said.
All was confusion, all a kind of wild and orgiastic dream, culmination of heredity, of a spirit run amok.
That three hundred pounds was composed of too much muscle and too little fat for Sam Bending to allow it to run amok.
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.
Soames had done for him—done for him by that act of property that had sent the Buccaneer to run amok that fatal afternoon.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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