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lose one's temper

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  • verb intransitive, idiomatic To be explosively angry. To get very cross.

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  • verb get very angry and fly into a rage

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. blow one's top
  2. go ape
  3. go apeshit
  4. hit the ceiling
  5. hit the roof
  6. lose it
  7. lose one's cool
  8. lose one's rag

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. rage

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