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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
  • The music itself is frantic and bombastic, exploding her crush into a throbbing, single-minded fascination.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In the film, a couple’s baby boy is abducted and his frantic mother finds a way to get him back.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of frantic
Verb
  • An exorbitant Costco egg order at Monterey school cracked open a ‘disgusting’ embezzlement scheme, police say.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
  • One owner, u/leftyhyzer16, said the screen cracked before setup was complete, after opening and closing the phone only a few times.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of cracked
Adjective
  • Blades Brown was in the field in Mexico and finished a respectable T-19, and during the event, an unsubstantiated yet absolutely hysterical rumor about the teenage phenom made the rounds in the golf world.
    — Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • American Horror Story is a show that balances the dramatic and the hysterical in both meanings of the word.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of hysterical
Verb
  • The album featured the sexy, chicken-scratch funk of the 1970s melted down to something slow and gooey next to early-morning comedown music for a ’90s-style sunrise in the chill-out room.
    — Jack Denton, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • After the band melted down, Hughes went out on his own, releasing his 1977 solo debut, Play Me Out, the first of more than a dozen solo LPs he’s released.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of melted down
Adjective
  • One of the other animals, a ram, tells Wilbur he is being raised for slaughter, leaving him understandably distraught.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The only thing left in the field was a distraught college kid, pacing back and forth, muttering to himself, and suffering over what might have been.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of distraught
Verb
  • Hard-right politics came to feel like a weed that had choked every other kind of political expression.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The woman denied the allegations, and Ross hit her in the chest several times and choked her, the report says, restricting her breathing by twisting the collar of her hoodie.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of choked
Adjective
  • As a vocalist, Rose has never sounded zanier or more frenzied.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
  • There are years of desire, wilting in silence, or the frenzied rhythm of regret.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of frenzied
Adjective
  • These moments pile up and ultimately converge, paying heartwarming tribute to how even the most monomaniacal movie projects necessitate collaboration.
    — Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of monomaniacal
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