See haywire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 103:",
"text": "Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Behaviorally erratic or uncontrollable, especially of a machine or mechanical process."
],
"links": [
[
"Behaviorally",
"behaviorally"
],
[
"erratic",
"erratic"
],
[
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrollable"
],
[
"machine",
"machine"
],
[
"mechanical",
"mechanical"
],
[
"process",
"process"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈheɪ.waɪ.ə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈheɪ.waɪɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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},
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}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit",
"word": "karkeatekoinen"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit",
"word": "šlampavo"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit",
"word": "spetljano"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "amok"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "senbrida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "oikutteleva"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "drunter und drüber"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "durcheinander"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "to get confused",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "összezavarodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "megzavarodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "to go crazy",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "megkergül"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "megbolondul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "bedilizik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "megőrül"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "to melt down",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "kiborul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"note": "of a machine, to break down",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "elromlik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "tönkremegy"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "confuso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "impazzito"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "w cały świat"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "chaotycznie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nenormálʹnyj",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "ненорма́льный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "besporjádočnyj",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "беспоря́дочный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "uneređeno"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "caótico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "fuera de control"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "behaving erratically or uncontrollably",
"word": "irse la olla"
}
],
"word": "haywire"
}
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