Thesaurus results for WIGGING (OUT)

wigging (out)

verb

present participle of wig (out), slang

as in losing it

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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This is Gordo and Tracy sacrificing themselves by running onto the moon’s surface with only duct-tape suits to stop a nuclear reactor from melting down.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 July 2026
What beef tallow is and how it’s made Beef tallow is a white, shelf-stable cooking fat made by rendering — or melting down — the fatty tissue that surrounds a cow’s organs, according to Michelle Crouch at AARP.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026

Definition of melting down

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As part of the last step to cracking the cold case, direct DNA testing confirmed Edwards’ identity.

— Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Although braids wind their way into many different areas of science, from protein folding to string theory, simply cracking the century-old case was enough of a reward for the trio.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

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Cotton is one of more than 100 million people across the Midwest, Northeast and mid-Atlantic breathing in dangerous air brought by thick, choking plumes of smoke from wildfires in Canada.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
The trend, which was popular on TikTok at the time, involves intentionally choking oneself or holding one’s breath until passing out.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026

Definition of choking

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At another MetroLoft project, 25 Water Street, Berman and a co-developer had taken a radical approach to breaking up the interior space of a hulking building that once housed offices belonging to JPMorgan Chase.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
Yannick Bright started the sequence breaking up a Fire run at midfield.

— Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026

Definition of breaking up

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Your liver is responsible for breaking down toxins and filtering them out of the body, essentially detoxifying you from harmful substances and chemicals.

— Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 22 July 2026
Dulce now asks for her father every night, Rojas said, breaking down in tears.

— Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 16 July 2026

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