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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
  • Around her, Youth builds an impressively frantic web of relationships and plot snarls.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Stocks tied to the AI boom slumped on Monday after the three biggest AI bosses warned the frantic pace of model development needed to be slowed.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of frantic
Verb
  • Victoria’s Secret Angels ate crispy rice tuna and cracked open layered chocolate-and-ice-cream desserts.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Could Disney+ be keeping the door cracked open for a potential season three?
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of cracked
Adjective
  • This hysterical comedy by writer-director Jesse Eisenberg has deep affection for artists clinging to the bottom rung of showbiz.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Some 5,000 actresses were considered amid months of hysterical media prognosticating on who would wear the invisible halo next.
    — Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of hysterical
Verb
  • Here’s why How junk silver is valued The price of junk silver is based on its melt value — the value of the silver content if the coin were melted down.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Thieves also are increasingly targeting museum items with gold and other precious metals that can be melted down and with gemstones that can be removed and sold, the agency said in a report in August.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of melted down
Adjective
  • Some distraught users took to social media to express their alarm at how the AI agent, which required masses of personal data to operate without detailed instructions, had a habit of going rogue.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Andrew offers his distraught daughter little sympathy, and from that moment, a murder plot begins to take shape.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of distraught
Verb
  • Wartime attacks on cargo vessels in the Black Sea have choked that supply route.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
  • However, wartime attacks on cargo vessels in the Black Sea have choked that supply route, raising fears of shortages.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of choked
Adjective
  • Challenged on all sides, Hansen finds that his only recourse is to throw himself, with ever more frenzied self-seriousness, into his work.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
  • He was supposed to set pay levels for executives of those large companies that took bailouts during the bailout-frenzied days of the Great Recession.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 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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