freakout
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈfriːkaʊt/
- Informal
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crisis emocional
- During the rollercoaster ride, my friend's freakout was evident as she screamed in panic going down the steep drop.
Examples
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His emotional freakout during the meeting surprised everyone, as he rarely showed that level of distress.
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Karl Rove's total freakout on live TV is a real tell, as they say in body-language interpretation psychology.
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Let me guess, you found something out near where you had your little freakout earlier?
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I don't understand the freakout over items that everyone knew were coming.
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That's what this freakout is all about.
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Before you all go getting scared thinking this is going to turn into a political piece, you can stop your mini-freakout right now.
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Ask Mitt Romney where Kolob is and watch the freakout begin.
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I have been receiving a bit of info about what might happen on election day since mid-October, and they didn't disappoint; the Karl Rove on-air freakout was predicted well in advance.
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After receiving the unexpected news, she had a sudden freakout and couldn't calm down for hours.
Synonyms
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6.1
An extreme, uncontrolled feeling of fear or excitement
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Freakout comes from the slang phrase freak out, where freak means 'a sudden strong or strange reaction' and out makes it more intense. It became common in the 1960s to mean losing control or panicking, so a freakout is a sudden, intense emotional reaction.