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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
  • Denver also cracked the top 10 for having some of the nicest residents in the country, a category otherwise dominated by Southern cities like Charlotte and Nashville.
    — Sara B. Hansen, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Following midterm losses, Miller may also be tasked with trying to reunite the coalition that backed Trump in 2024 but cracked in the midterms, to prevent further MAGA defections down the line.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 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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