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- s frenzied as if possessed by a demon
- r wildly; without self-control
- r in a murderous frenzy
- When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect.
- Now he is charged with cleaning up the sizable mess left by an epidemic of risk-taking run amok.
- Besides being effing genius, the conceit allows Moore to run amok in the basement storage of 20th century culture, plucking out the strange and angry and contradictory bits that .