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adjective

Definition of wigged-outnext
as in frantic

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wigged (out)

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verb

past tense of wig (out), slang
as in cracked
to yield to mental or emotional stress with her claustrophobia, it wouldn't take a day for her to wig out on a submarine

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wigged-out
  1. frantic
  2. cracked
  3. hysterical
  4. melted down
  5. distraught
  6. choked
  7. frenzied
  8. monomaniacal
Adjective
  • Kurfürstendamm is just steps away, as is the Tiergarten, yet the neighborhood never feels frantic.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026
  • Declan Rice and Ezri Konsa also scored as England raced to a 4-0 halftime lead before surviving a frantic second half to secure the nation’s best World Cup finish since winning the title in 1966.
    — Mark Hodge, NBC news, 20 July 2026
Definition of frantic
Verb
  • This voice-of-Google thing—a code I’d cracked for generating corpspeak with personality—slowly became a hot commodity.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
  • None of the group's other compositions have cracked 300 frames, but all of them have held on for years.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of cracked
Adjective
  • The kids were celebrating, but one little girl came out a little hysterical.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
  • Necessary reckonings have pulled the deepest wounds of American history to the surface, fracturing the public into factions of the wronged, the guilty, and those in hysterical denial.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2026
Definition of hysterical
Verb
  • Tin cans are also melted down and turned into aluminium for jewelry.
    — Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • At one point, his statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, was melted down into two tons of bronze ingots.
    — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2026
Definition of melted down
Adjective
  • Leaving the Door Open For More S Pen fans were distraught when Samsung removed support for its beloved stylus from the Z Fold 7 in 2025.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 2026
  • Laertes becomes deeply distraught over his son’s two-decade absence, a grief that had already claimed his wife, Odysseus’ mother, Anticlea.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026
Definition of distraught
Verb
  • City Councilmember Rowena Brown said she was punched, choked and dragged by her hair through her downtown Oakland apartment over the weekend by an acquaintance who is now charged with felony counts of assault, robbery and false imprisonment.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
  • The Mets entered this season overhauling a roster that choked away the best record in the league last summer, which turned in a league-high $329 million payroll.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of choked
Adjective
  • But a durational exhibition requires a totally different allocation of time and energy, and the frenzied interests of private donors can be draining.
    — Lauren Oyler, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Boarding-day lunch at Carnival’s Lido Marketplace, for example, is a frenzied scrum of hangry travelers dragging oversized carry-ons through tight aisles.
    — Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2026
Definition of frenzied
Adjective
  • When Ahab first speaks to the crew about Moby Dick, his diabolical charisma soon infects the men who, apart from Starbuck, enthusiastically join him in his monomaniacal crusade.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • Abdul-Mateen’s performance is perpetually glum, but insufficiently monomaniacal, lowering the stakes throughout.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of monomaniacal
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