durchdrehen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- snap verb To break suddenly with a sharp cracking sound.
Senses
durchdrehen is used for these senses in English:
- crack up (idiomatic, intransitive, dated, _, in US) To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.
- freak out (informal, intransitive) To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.
- go nuts (informal) To become mad.
- run riot (idiomatic) To be uncontrollable.
- snap (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
snap — full definition
- verb To break suddenly with a sharp cracking sound.
- verb To speak suddenly and sharply, often out of irritation.
- noun A quick photograph.
- adjective Made suddenly, without much thought or planning.