freaked (out) 1 of 2

past tense of freak (out)

freaked-out

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adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for freaked-out
Verb
  • China's nuclear arsenal has especially alarmed Washington and its allies.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Yet more investors are growing alarmed by efforts by the current administration to oust members of the Fed board of governors for new appointees.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Mickey Gasper drove in a career-high three runs, and Matt Wallner hit his 21st home run of the season, but Minnesota’s bullpen melted down in the seventh inning and the White Sox rallied to sweep a four-game series with a 11-8 victory Thursday at nearly empty Target Field.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Keegan Akin shut the Red Sox down over two perfect innings, but the home club finally had an opportunity in the eighth after Kade Strowd melted down with two singles and a four-pitch walk to load the bases with nobody out.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • As police secured the area with crime scene tape, distraught family members began arriving at the scene late Sunday night, according to police dispatch audio.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The mother thanked officers and ran from the apartment, distraught and inconsolable.
    Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Daskalakis was disturbed by Kennedy’s comments that chickens that survive H5N1 bird flu are genetically superior and that the stronger children who get measles will survive.
    Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • On another job in an extravagant mansion, he’s disturbed by a loud noise upstairs.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But often, someone cracked the door and a conversation started.
    David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • However, thanks to the sharpest images yet from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have finally cracked part of this puzzle.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Three weeks ago, an extremely freaked out Judge Alice Dockery (Tricia Alexandro) found something presumably very wrong in a file and called Detective Fleming (Miles Mussenden) to come to her office immediately.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In other words: a dystopian capsule wardrobe of freaked basics.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2022
Verb
  • There will be a temptation because of his height to draw parallels with Moyes’ use of Marouane Fellaini and Soucek, two key pillars of his Everton and West Ham sides, but where Rohl is concerned, his size can be deceptive.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Trevor Lawrence will have added pressure to get back to elite status as far as quarterbacking is concerned.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The always watchable Zem (Other People’s Children) is strong as an obsessive intellectual whose theories drive him to push others to the brink, while Valeria Golino (a requisite for any Italian festival film these days) shows up as the aggrieved mother of a victim.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But its sympathy for its aggrieved antihero feels very current.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Freaked-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freaked-out. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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