FLIPPING (OUT) Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

flipping (out)

verb

present participle of flip (out), slang

as in losing it

to yield to mental or emotional stress a movie about a submarine captain who flips out when there's an emergency, leaving the crew to deal with it on their own

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as in having a fit

to become very angry when my wife saw that I had broken her great-grandmother's vase, she absolutely flipped out

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This is Gordo and Tracy sacrificing themselves by running onto the moon’s surface with only duct-tape suits to stop a nuclear reactor from melting down.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 July 2026
What beef tallow is and how it’s made Beef tallow is a white, shelf-stable cooking fat made by rendering — or melting down — the fatty tissue that surrounds a cow’s organs, according to Michelle Crouch at AARP.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026

Definition of melting down

Verb

While that shutdown ostensibly ended in mid-November, a partial government shutdown dragged on through April, snarling the Department of Homeland Security and causing long delays and confusion at airports across the country.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 23 July 2026
Just like in the darnkess cave, the snarling machine gun of thoughts—unanswered emails, to-dos, and angst about my 17 year old’s plans to travel the world alone—slowly fell silent.

— Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026

Definition of snarling

Verb

As part of the last step to cracking the cold case, direct DNA testing confirmed Edwards’ identity.

— Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Although braids wind their way into many different areas of science, from protein folding to string theory, simply cracking the century-old case was enough of a reward for the trio.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

Definition of cracking

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Cotton is one of more than 100 million people across the Midwest, Northeast and mid-Atlantic breathing in dangerous air brought by thick, choking plumes of smoke from wildfires in Canada.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
The trend, which was popular on TikTok at the time, involves intentionally choking oneself or holding one’s breath until passing out.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026

Definition of choking

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Leaders of the Maine Democratic Party are still working toward a process to replace Graham Platner, without angering his supporters.

— Dan Merica, Washington Post, 9 July 2026
The mayor floated the idea to place Williams on probation for six months, angering the city manager’s supporters in the crowd.

— Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026

Definition of angering

Verb

At another MetroLoft project, 25 Water Street, Berman and a co-developer had taken a radical approach to breaking up the interior space of a hulking building that once housed offices belonging to JPMorgan Chase.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
Yannick Bright started the sequence breaking up a Fire run at midfield.

— Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026

Definition of breaking up

Verb

Iraola has made a really positive start, but there are glaring gaps in the squad Slot left behind that have yet to be filled.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 25 July 2026
Once launched, Eärendil-1 would deploy an 18-meter-wide steerable mirror to demonstrate that technological feat; anyone or anything in the path of its beam would see the satellite as a glaring dot shining up to four times brighter than a full moon.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 16 July 2026

Definition of glaring

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