Synonyms for freaked out
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : freek |
| Phonetic Transcription : frik |
Top 10 synonyms for freaked out
Définition of freaked out
Origin :- 1560s, "sudden turn of mind," of unknown origin, perhaps related to Old English frician "to dance" (not recorded in Middle English, but the word may have survived in dialect) [OED, Barnhart], or perhaps from Middle English frek "bold, quickly," from Old English frec "greedy, gluttonous" (cf. German frech "bold, impudent").
- Sense of "capricious notion" (1560s) and "unusual thing, fancy" (1784) preceded that of "strange or abnormal individual" (first in freak of nature, 1847; cf. Latin lusus naturæ, used in English from 1660s). The sense in health freak, ecology freak, etc. is attested from 1908 (originally Kodak freak, a camera buff). Freak show attested from 1887.
- verb lose control
- I pointed him to my blog-post on the radio vans and he came back a minute later all freaked out.
- Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow
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