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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
Adjective
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As catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Texas Hill Country on July 4, dispatchers received multiple frantic 911 calls from Camp Mystic, a Christian sleepaway camp for girls, describing children gone missing and pleading for helicopters to rescue them.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
6 Dec. 2025 -
Passages in which a lower frame rate makes the image jittery portray the frantic rush of emotion that the two are overtaken by now that fate has reunited them.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
4 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Bullets had cracked his pelvis, shattered the back of his spinal column and torn through his leg, intestines and kidney.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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His helmet was smashed and cracked through.—
Mike Sullivan,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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Vomiting itself is a very expressive, hysterical—in the Freudian sense—act.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
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This hysterical, cringe-inducing mockumentary series centers on David Brent (Gervais), the clueless, arrogant boss of a British paper company, and the unfortunate employees who work for him.—
Tanya Melendez,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 May 2026
Verb
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The October heist was also seen as an example of how thieves are increasingly targeting cultural institutions — not for prized paintings, but for artifacts that can be dismantled and melted down for the value of their raw materials.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
9 Dec. 2025
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Three nuclear reactors melted down, spewing radioactive particles into the air.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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In a heartbreaking scene outside the residence, as captured on video by ABC 7, family members are seen wailing and distraught, surrounded by police cars and neighbors.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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The timeout comes and New York's Josh Hart is distraught.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
Verb
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The petition, which was granted by a federal judge, cited reports alleging that guards at the facility choked and asphyxiated Campos.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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In the case of the sisters, Gaff hogtied the girls, cut off their clothes with a knife, raped them repeatedly, beat them, choked them, and shocked one of them with an electrical cord, court records say.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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The Samurai Blue fans were frenzied after the goal went into the back of the net.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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For quite some time post Covid, film festival pick-ups have been sluggish (though foreign films do sell at Cannes) with the yields at the box office often lower than the frenzied, ratcheted up auction prices.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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Until the cycle is broken, the monomaniacal goal of Bills Mafia will be to outlast the Chiefs in the postseason.—
Jacob Camenker,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Your monomaniacal focus creates your monopoly.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Wigged-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wigged-out. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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