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UK
/fɹˈiːk/
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[ US /ˈfɹik/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹik/ ]
NOUN
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someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
a car nut
a news junkie
a bodybuilding freak
a golf addict - a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
VERB
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lose one's nerve
When he saw the accident, he freaked out
How To Use freak In A Sentence
- Lastly, I am a bit of control freak with a blistering pace when it comes to work.
- I can, however tell you that AB is absolutely freaking awesome!! What I've been doing this morning...
- I was totally expecting you to say that you read a section looking for the miscut part and got yourself hideously freaked out for the bike ride home. Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen King
- The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
- In ten years it would be run into the ground, full of bug-eyed meth freaks. Shortcut Man
- And the images you conjure with "straddling glowing globes and caressing the giant W" makes us sound so freakin 'horny ... oh wait ... nevermind. Blogger Bender - Part II
- Facing off against Daredevil's way coolist foe of the day, Death-Stalker, the team-up had a great moment when the villain grabbed GR's flaming skull and was freaked to find that he wouldn't die. DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
- What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
- It's like they don't know how to drive in freaking snow. Archive 2009-01-01
- He is known to be a control freak and something of a clean freak. Times, Sunday Times