GO OFF THE DEEP END Synonyms: 12 Similar Words

go off the deep end

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Definition of go off the deep end

as in crack

to yield to mental or emotional stress After months of pressure at work, he went off the deep end.

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Previous ceasefire talks either failed or the truces quickly fell apart.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Later, a former professional boxer and a local politics kingmaker took over, but things fell apart around the time of the FBI’s raid on the property.

— Lauren Mechling, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2026

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Conditionality works best when the United States remains engaged enough for its partners to care about losing it.

— Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026
Trump’s endless war and its global economic destruction isn’t helping the North Carolina apple farmer who lost it all in Hurricane Helene.

— S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

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