Meaning

4 senses
  1. (informal, intransitive)To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.

    When Peter saw the nail poking up through his foot, he freaked out and started hyperventilating.

    ausflippen, durchdrehen, ausrasten

    выходи́ть из себя́vyxodítʹ iz sebjá, вы́йти из себя́výjti iz sebjá, обалдева́тьobaldevátʹ

    виходити з себеvyxodyty z sebe

  2. (informal, transitive)To scare or unnerve someone.

    Don't take off your shirt when working behind the counter. You'll freak the customers out.

    пуга́тьpugátʹ, напуга́тьnapugátʹ, испуга́тьispugátʹ

    лякатиljakaty

  3. (informal, intransitive)To be upset or nervous; to be scared or unnerved.

  4. (informal, intransitive)To adopt an unconventional (especially countercultural) persona or appearance.

More definitions
  • lose one's nerve

Examples

305 sentences
  1. Are you freaking out?

    Ти психуєш? — deniko

    deDrehst du gerade durch? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom's parents freaked out.

    Батьки Тома злякалися. — deniko

    deToms Eltern sind ausgeflippt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Don't freak out.

    Не лякайся. — shanghainese

    ruНе кипишуй. — Karok

    deFlipp nicht aus! — al_ex_an_der

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  4. Tom freaked out and started screaming.

    ruТом взбесился и начал орать. — yatomoya

  5. Tom said that he freaked out.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
react with anger or fear:
scare someone:
Русский
react with anger or fear:
scare someone:
Deutsch
react with anger or fear:

Origin

From freak + out. Countercultural slang, originally referring to a positive reaction or ex

From freak + out. Countercultural slang, originally referring to a positive reaction or experience from the use of a psychotropic, usually a hallucinogenic or psychedelic drug. First use appears c. 1966 in several newspapers, particularly in the Independent (Long Beach, California).

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Forms

freaks out, freaking out, freaked out, freaked out
Base formfreak out · to freak out
3rd person singularfreaks out
Present participlefreaking out
Past simplefreaked out
Past participlefreaked out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfreak out
he, she, itfreaks out

Past simpleLesson

all personsfreaked out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave freaked out
he, she, ithas freaked out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill freak out

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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