Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)To have a panic attack; to be overcome by sadness, anxiety, etc.; to freak out

Examples

23 sentences

  1. Layla's plane spiralled out of control.

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  2. Tom's plane spiraled out of control.

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  3. Inflation has spiraled out of control.

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  4. Prices are spiralling out of control.

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  5. The airplane spiraled out of control.

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Forms

spirals out, spiraling out, spiraled out, spiraled out
Base formspiral out · to spiral out
3rd person singularspirals out
Present participlespiraling out
Past simplespiraled out / spiralled out
Past participlespiraled out / spiralled out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyspiral out
he, she, itspirals out

Past simpleLesson

all personsspiraled out

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill spiral out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
spinyspiralB1spireC2spiritB1
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