"run amuck" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs amuck",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running amuck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran amuck",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run amuck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> amuck"
      },
      "expansion": "run amuck (third-person singular simple present runs amuck, present participle running amuck, simple past ran amuck, past participle run amuck)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "run amok"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Passages from a Relinquished Work”, in Mosses from an Old Manse",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of run amok"
      ],
      "id": "en-run_amuck-en-verb-U4qmNJJe",
      "links": [
        [
          "run amok",
          "run amok#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "run amuck"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs amuck",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running amuck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran amuck",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run amuck",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> amuck"
      },
      "expansion": "run amuck (third-person singular simple present runs amuck, present participle running amuck, simple past ran amuck, past participle run amuck)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "run amok"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Passages from a Relinquished Work”, in Mosses from an Old Manse",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of run amok"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "run amok",
          "run amok#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "run amuck"
}