FREAKED OUT Synonyms: 166 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in distraught

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freaked (out)

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verb

past tense of freak (out)

as in alarmed

to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy don't talk about death, as it totally freaks me out

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as in melted down

to yield to mental or emotional stress the landlady totally freaked out when she saw the dead body in the hall

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Adjective

But today’s Court often divides along stark ideological lines, and the liberals often sound truly distraught in their dissents.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
One distraught woman sat on the ground next to a large pool of blood as another woman embraced her.

— John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of distraught

Verb

California Forever has increasingly pitched the Solano Shipyard as part of a broader effort to rebuild the US maritime industry, a priority among both Democrats and Republicans alarmed over its decline.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
The world’s most powerful economies are increasingly alarmed by their declining birthrates, and there’s no shortage of theories on why.

— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of alarmed

Verb

The cartridges were intended to be melted down for gold at a metal recovery service, but the games were never destroyed, Braun told ABC News.

— Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a stretch yarn from polyethylene that is able to be melted down and recycled.

— Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of melted down

Adjective

Schiltz added that any aggrieved teacher can file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

— Riley Moser, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
In a later conversation in that same episode, the women’s roles are switched — Rhaenyra is no longer the impatient interrogator but an aggrieved ruler who has no idea how to govern; Alicent is the soothing confidant offering wisdom to welcome ears.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of aggrieved

Verb

Peonies don’t like to be disturbed and may not bloom the next year, but division is sometimes necessary.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
The study hypothesized that the sickle was added before the body fully decomposed since no joints were detached or displaced, as archaeologists would expect if a grave were to be disturbed after the body became a skeleton.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of disturbed

Verb

Inspectors reported seeing rodent droppings, cracked tiles in a shower, a tarp on the roof, a crack in the ceiling, debris and furniture dumped outside.

— Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Had Logan Allen not stumbled in his final spring tune-up, Messick might not have cracked the Opening Day roster this season.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of cracked

Adjective

The engaging biopic tracks Davidson's troubled upbringing to finding a way as an adult to deal with his condition and discover needed confidence.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Watching myself in the insightful new doc Boorman and the Devil, about the troubled 1977 sequel to The Exorcist, was a very strange experience.

— Britina Cheng, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of troubled

Verb

During a performance, Hankerson said he was concerned watching as his mom, who’s been performing for 75 years, fumbled through the set.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Some of that work instead has fallen on journalists, activists and others concerned that anyone with access to the company’s private camera networks can follow virtually any driver's movements with a query as effortless as a Google search.

— Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

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