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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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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
Verb
  • Once filtered, add the coriander; just add 1 tsp cracked coriander seeds to the finished cocktail, and let infuse for about 15 ti 30 minutes before straining out.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 July 2026
  • The case was cracked using investigative genetic genealogy, a combination of DNA analysis and paper trail research that has been used over the past decade to reverse engineer a person’s identity.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
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
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
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
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
Adjective
  • Higuchi was already at home in this rubbery soundworld, but his determination to work out his own feelings in this already frenzied context pushes his music past the cartoonish and into the truly demonic.
    Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 27 July 2026
  • Each company is set to spend roughly $200 billion this year building out its data centers—an unprecedented level of investment—in a frenzied bid to keep up with demand for AI services and to avoid getting overtaken by other cloud rivals like Google.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 July 2026
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
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“Wigged-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wigged-out. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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