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crack up

Definitions

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  • verb idiomatic, intransitive To laugh heartily.
  • verb idiomatic, transitive To cause to laugh heartily
  • verb intransitive, idiomatic To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb laugh unrestrainedly
  • verb suffer a nervous breakdown
  • verb rhapsodize about

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synonyms (229)

Words with the same meaning

  1. ablate
  2. accident
  3. appulse
  4. atomize
  5. bang
  6. bang into
  7. bankruptcy
  8. blow
  9. brain disease
  10. break down
  11. break up
  12. breakage
  13. breakdown
  14. breaking up
  15. breakup
  16. brunt
  17. bulldozing
  18. bulling
  19. bump
  20. bump into
  21. burn out
  22. calamity
  23. cannon
  24. carambole
  25. carom
  26. carom into
  27. carry away
  28. casualty
  29. cataclysm
  30. catastrophe
  31. cave
  32. cave-in
  33. circulatory collapse
  34. clash
  35. collapse
  36. collide
  37. collision
  38. come apart
  39. come into collision
  40. come off
  41. come undone
  42. come unstuck
  43. concuss
  44. concussion
  45. confront each other
  46. consume
  47. contretemps
  48. corrode
  49. crack
  50. crackup
  51. crash
  52. crash into
  53. crippling
  54. crumble
  55. crumble into dust
  56. crump
  57. crunch
  58. damage
  59. dash into
  60. debacle
  61. decay
  62. decompose
  63. destruction
  64. detriment
  65. diffusion
  66. dilapidation
  67. disablement
  68. disaster
  69. disintegrate
  70. disintegration
  71. disjoin
  72. disorganize
  73. dispersal
  74. disrepair
  75. disruption
  76. dissolution
  77. dissolve
  78. draining
  79. droop
  80. drop
  81. emotional disorder
  82. emotional instability
  83. encounter
  84. encroachment
  85. erode
  86. exfoliation
  87. exhaustedness
  88. exhaustion
  89. faint
  90. fall foul of
  91. fall off
  92. fall to pieces
  93. fatigue
  94. fission
  95. flag
  96. flip
  97. fly apart
  98. foul
  99. fragmentation
  100. functional nervous disorder
  101. gasp
  102. get loose
  103. get tired
  104. give out
  105. give way
  106. go crazy
  107. go haywire
  108. go into hysterics
  109. go mad
  110. go to pieces
  111. grief
  112. grow weary
  113. hammering
  114. harm
  115. hit
  116. hit against
  117. hobbling
  118. hurt
  119. hurting
  120. hurtle
  121. ill hap
  122. impact
  123. impairment
  124. impinge
  125. impingement
  126. incapacitation
  127. infringement
  128. injury
  129. inroad
  130. insanity
  131. jade
  132. knock
  133. knock against
  134. lose courage
  135. lose self-control
  136. loss
  137. maiming
  138. maladjustment
  139. manic-depressive psychosis
  140. mauling
  141. mayhem
  142. meet
  143. meeting
  144. melancholia
  145. mental disorder
  146. mental illness
  147. misadventure
  148. mischance
  149. mischief
  150. misfortune
  151. mishap
  152. molder
  153. mutilation
  154. nasty blow
  155. near-miss
  156. nervous breakdown
  157. nervous disorder
  158. nervous exhaustion
  159. nervous prostration
  160. neurasthenia
  161. neurosis
  162. onslaught
  163. pant
  164. paranoia
  165. peel off
  166. percuss
  167. percussion
  168. personality disorder
  169. peter out
  170. pileup
  171. play out
  172. poop out
  173. problems in living
  174. prostration
  175. psychosis
  176. puff
  177. puff and blow
  178. ramming
  179. reaction
  180. revolution
  181. ruination
  182. ruinousness
  183. run down
  184. run into
  185. run out
  186. sabotage
  187. scaling
  188. scathe
  189. scattering
  190. schizophrenia
  191. shattering
  192. shipwreck
  193. shock
  194. sickening
  195. sideswipe
  196. sink
  197. slam into
  198. sledgehammering
  199. smack into
  200. smash
  201. smash into
  202. smash up
  203. smash-up
  204. smashing
  205. smashup
  206. social maladjustment
  207. split
  208. spoiling
  209. spring apart
  210. staggering blow
  211. start
  212. strike
  213. strike against
  214. succumb
  215. thrusting
  216. tire
  217. total loss
  218. tragedy
  219. unravel
  220. washout
  221. waste away
  222. weakening
  223. wear away
  224. weary
  225. wheeze
  226. whomp
  227. wilt
  228. wrack
  229. wreck

hypernyms (12)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. exalt
  2. express joy
  3. express mirth
  4. extol
  5. get
  6. glorify
  7. have
  8. laud
  9. laugh
  10. proclaim
  11. suffer
  12. sustain

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