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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
  • Towns still rebuilding are hit by new floods Volunteer firefighters spent the night evacuating homes and answering frantic calls in Ingram, just up river from Hunt, said Ingram Mayor Claud Jordan.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • The frantic antics and manic-yet-precise playing at times jaw-dropping.
    — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 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
  • 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
  • Filming a comedy is so much fun, and every day is hysterical — even the long days.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
Definition of hysterical
Verb
  • At one point, his statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, was melted down into two tons of bronze ingots.
    — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2026
  • The Art Nouveau and Art Deco items taken are said to be made of crystal, gold, and semi-precious stones, and cannot be melted down.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 7 July 2026
Definition of melted down
Adjective
  • Claudia Morton, who lives near Durán Guerrero and his family and often waved to him, was distraught over the shooting.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 July 2026
  • On December 2, 1717, a distraught George Augustus and Caroline packed up their household and said goodbye to their children.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026
Definition of distraught
Verb
  • Downwind of the disaster, Toronto, the largest city in the country, has been choked by wildfire smoke, turning the sky orange and plunging air quality levels to the worst in the world.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 July 2026
  • That student entered the circle, looped his arm around the boy’s neck and choked him.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 15 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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