amok

a·mok /əˈmɒk $ əˈmɑːk/ (also amuck) adverbadv

run amok

a) VIOLENTto suddenly behave in a very violent and uncontrolled way 狂亂，發狂

Drunken troops ran amok in the town.

喝醉酒的士兵在鎮上撒野。

b) to get out of control and cause a lot of problems 失控

an age in which global capitalism has run amok

全球資本主義大行其道的時代

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run amok• But speculation about whether he had accomplices has run amok.• No, our kids are not running amok.• There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s, with stone-throwing anarchists running amok.• I think Mum worried that I might run amok and stick my penknife straight into Katie.• The Zekes come in against the line of P-40s, one runs amok as others erupt in flames.• Double-entendre lyrics run amok at this sonic strip club from hell.• Don't let him go running amok, Bill.• Troops were allowed to run amok in the villages.• With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.

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amok• There is the pop psychology of the day, run amok.• There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s, with stone-throwing anarchists running amok.• I think Mum worried that I might run amok and stick my penknife straight into Katie.• A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok, threatening everyone.• With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.

Origin amok

(1500-1600) Malay

a·mok adverbadv

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