flipping (out)
verb
1
as in losing it
to yield to mental or emotional stress a movie about a submarine captain who flips out when there's an emergency, leaving the crew to deal with it on their own Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- losing it
- melting down
- falling apart
- wigging (out)
- cracking
- freaking (out)
- breaking up
- breaking down
- going to pieces
- choking
- going off the deep end
- blowing one's cool
2
as in going ballistic
to become very angry when my wife saw that I had broken her great-grandmother's vase, she absolutely flipped out Synonyms & Similar Words
- going ballistic
- blowing up
- snarling
- forgetting oneself
- hitting the roof
- blowing one's top
- flying into a rage
- having a fit
- hitting the ceiling
- angering
- losing one's temper
- blowing a gasket
- flying off the handle
- blowing one's stack
- snapping
- losing one's cool
- glaring
- flaring (up)
- blowing one's cool
- teeing off
- exploding
- storming
- vituperating
- raging
- flashing
- steaming
- sputtering
- ranting
- flaring (out)
- raving
- fulminating
- warming
- venting
- bristling
- foaming
- sizzling
- bursting
- seething
- smoldering
- fuming
- glowering
- burning
- maddening
- smouldering
- inflaming
- enflaming
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- calming (down)
- cooling (off or down)
- simmering down
- quieting (down)
- chilling out
- relaxing
- hushing
