lose one's mind

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːz wʌnz maɪnd/

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Verb

lose one's mind (third-person singular simple present loses one's mind, present participle losing one's mind, simple past and past participle lost one's mind)

1. (idiomatic) To become frustrated, angry.
2. (idiomatic) To become crazy, insane, mad.

Synonyms

• blow one's top
• go ape
• go apeshit
• hit the roof
• hit the ceiling
• lose it
• lose one's cool
• lose one's head
• lose one's marbles
• lose one's rag
• lose the plot

Translations

to become insane

• Catalan: perdre el seny
• Chinese: 瘋了／疯了, 失去理智

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: zijn verstand verliezen
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• French: perdre la raison (fr), perdre la tête (fr)
• Galician: perder a cabeza, desvariar, louquear (gl), tolear (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: seinen Verstand verlieren, den Verstand verlieren
• Greek: χάνω τα λογικά μου (cháno ta logiká mou)
• Japanese: 正気を失う (shōki wo ushinau)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: oszaleć (pl) pf, postradać rozum pf, postradać zmysły pf, tracić rozum impf, stracić rozum (pl) pf
• Portuguese: perder a razão
• Russian: потеря́ть рассу́док pf (poterjátʹ rassúdok), сойти́ с ума́ pf (sojtí s umá), (colloquial) чо́кнуться (ru) (čóknutʹsja)
• Spanish: perder la razón, perder los papeles
• Swahili: -rukwa na akili
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: aklını kaçırmak (tr), aklını kaybetmek, aklını yitirmek
• Vietnamese: mất trí (vi)