What does run amuck mean?

run amuck

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English

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"This event would have looked most horrible in anticipation,—a thing to make a man shoot himself, or run amuck, or hide himself in caverns where he might not see his own burning blush; but the reality was not so very hard to bear."
"He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent."

runs amuck (present, singular) running amuck (participle, present) ran amuck (past)

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