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All go haywire synonyms

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verb go haywire

  • vary — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
  • differ — to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities (often followed by from): The two writers differ greatly in their perceptions of the world. Each writer's style differs from that of another.
  • depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
  • veer — to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
  • diverge — to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off.
  • go off — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
  • avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
  • shy — bashful; retiring.
  • drift — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
  • deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
  • divagate — to wander; stray.
  • turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • digress — to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
  • part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
  • wander — to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth.
  • contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
  • bear off — (of a vessel) to avoid hitting an obstacle, another vessel, etc, by swerving onto a different course
  • bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
  • get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
  • freak out — any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual object; anomaly; aberration.
  • hit the ceiling — the overhead interior surface of a room.
  • wig out — an artificial covering of hair for all or most of the head, of either synthetic or natural hair, worn to be stylish or more attractive.
  • blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
  • fly off the handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • go ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
  • go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
  • go berserk — If someone or something goes berserk, they lose control of themselves and become very angry or violent.
  • go off the deep end — final or ultimate: the end result.
  • lose it — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • blow one's stack — to lose one's temper; fly into a rage
  • blow one's top — to lose one's temper
  • lose one's mind — (Idiomatic) To become frustrated, angry.
  • lose one's temper — (Intransitive Verb) IDI To become explosively angry or very cross.
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • flip out — to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • go bananas — (Idiomatic) To go mad.
  • work oneself up — become overwrought
  • flip one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • lose one's cool — (Idiomatic) To become upset or disconcerted; to lose one's temper.
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