amok

• The archetypal uncontrollable creation-gone-amok is Frankenstein's monster, commonly familiarized to Frankenstein by the incognizant who thus disserve Mary Shelley's Baron Frankenstein, the monster's creator. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
• The same weather pattern had spawned a minor crime spree-felons running amok, apparently stimulated by the shift in atmospheric conditions. —  I is for Innocent
• They run amok, the organ starts playing, and all the ladies end up with their dresses over their heads. —  Bono On Bono
• We had heard before, and have heard recently, that what might appear to be an administration run amok is actually an administration holding fast on constitutional principle. —  Cheney: The Fatal Touch
• Amuck , more properly spelled amok , comes from the Malay word amok , meaning "a state of murderous frenzy." —  The Word Detective

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