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• s  frenzied as if possessed by a demon
  the soldier was completely amuck
• r  wildly; without self-control
  when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit
• r  in a murderous frenzy
  rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones

• Instead, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a leading sentencing reform organization, pushed Clinton to help correct what it called sentences run amuck.
• Regulation run amuck unleashes a congressional revolt The usually somnolent annual congressional review of the Federal Trade Commission this year has resembled a West.
• The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls .

• amok
• berserk
• demoniac
• demoniacal
• possessed
• murderously

News & Articles

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• Hard to pick winner in Izod IndyCar Series in 2013: IndyCar series has produced six winners from six different ...
  Parity has run amuck in the Izod IndyCar Series.
  June 7, 2013 - AutoWeek
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  Summary: Twenty years after a pandemic radically transformed known civilization, infected humans run amuck and survivors kill one another for sustenance and weapons - literally whatever they can get their hands on.
  June 5, 2013 - metacritic
• Dave Barry's Mix of Over the Top Humor, Seriousness Reflects 'Insanity' of Miami
  Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN:  And finally tonight, switching the tone just a bit for a conversation with humorist Dave Barry. Barry is well-known for his long-running newspaper column about all things wacky and wonderful in Miami. And Miami is the setting for his new novel, which includes a bachelor party run amuck, a wedding that's interrupted by the arrival of a boat of ...
  June 5, 2013 - The Online NewsHour

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Register
  President Obama describes it as "an example of the procurement process gone amuck" and said "we're going to have to fix it".
• Chris Shays in Danbury News Times
  Abu Ghraib was about a military unit run amuck. With proper oversight the abuses would have been easy to correct, and been corrected, without a lot of fanfare or publicity,Shays said.
• Federico Pena in Boston Globe (registration)
  For the last eight years, John McCain and his Bush-Republican allies in Congress have promoted the deregulation policies that let corporations run amuck at the expense of working Latino families and all Americans,said Federico Peña, the...