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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Gossip blogger Perez Hilton was reportedly treated for a drug overdose after melting down during a livestream that caused concerns of self-harm.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
If energy stocks are one way to profit from powering the boom, another lies in the hardware that keeps those AI factories from melting down.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of melting down

Verb

The film opens upon a typical grumpy New York day, with traffic snarling the streets and horns honking.

— Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
The internet is full of photos of 841 munching on purloined surfboards and then sitting on top of them, snarling at baffled young men in wet suits who try, and then think better of, fighting her for their property.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of snarling

Verb

Traditional Republicans who have supported, or at least gone along with, the party’s attacks on Muslims and immigrants and its rejection of democratic norms have spoken out against cracking the door open for anti-Semites.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
Others are dressing up as John Politics in convincing cosplay, or cracking jokes about Powell as an alternate reality diplomat.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of cracking

Verb

In a major effort over last weekend, the OpenAI team apparently used an internal model to take the result further, blowing up the full Navier-Stokes equations, according to Buckmaster.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Your originality can solve the tension without blowing up the plan.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of blowing up

Verb

The family of a 7-year-old boy who nearly died after choking on a piece of meat and going into cardiac arrest reunited Monday with the paramedics and 911 dispatcher who helped save his life last month in Anne Arundel County.

— Caroline Foreback, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026
Construction workers, firefighters, and police officers, who stood shoulder to shoulder with him for months amid choking dust, burning debris, and twisted steel.

— Raja Flores, STAT, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of choking

Verb

Rebecca regrets angering Matthijs (Matteo van der Grijn) after putting his daughter in the middle of a heated discussion around the possibility of Matthijs moving to London.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026
Two go-their-own-way Democrats bucked the party on a routine procedural vote, angering colleagues and raising a red flag about potential party divisions to come.

— Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of angering

Verb

Several of my favorite poetry collections capture the nuanced process of breaking up, with its extreme states of longing, anger, and sorrow—while also expanding the capacity for joy, pleasure, and compassion.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Foundations for Nations is located amid a patchwork of federal, tribal and private property — the legacy of 19th century federal policies designed to eliminate tribes by breaking up collective land bases.

— Savannah Peters, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of breaking up

Verb

But these glaring blind spots, however hard to watch, are the point.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026
There was one glaring error that allowed the pass rush to get to Osborne and affect his throw, which landed in the arms of a linebacker in the middle of the field for his first interception of the year.

— Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026

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