"lose one's mind" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /luːz wʌnz maɪnd/ Audio: En-au-lose one's mind.ogg [Australia] Forms: loses one's mind [present, singular, third-person], losing one's mind [participle, present], lost one's mind [participle, past], lost one's mind [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> one's mind}} 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. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Anger
    Sense id: en-lose_one's_mind-en-verb-982BJcNt Disambiguation of Anger: 65 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 82 18 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 82 18
  2. (idiomatic) To become crazy, insane, mad. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-lose_one's_mind-en-verb-B9nZlE58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to become insane): perdre el seny (Catalan), 瘋了 (Chinese), 疯了 (Chinese), 失去理智 (Chinese), zijn verstand verliezen (Dutch), perdre la raison (French), perdre la tête (French), perder a cabeza (Galician), desvariar (Galician), louquear (Galician), tolear (Galician), χάνω τα λογικά μου (cháno ta logiká mou) (Greek), 正気を失う (shōki wo ushinau) (Japanese), oszaleć [perfective] (Polish), postradać rozum [perfective] (Polish), postradać zmysły [perfective] (Polish), tracić rozum [imperfective] (Polish), stracić rozum [perfective] (Polish), perder a razão (Portuguese), потеря́ть рассу́док (poterjátʹ rassúdok) [perfective] (Russian), сойти́ с ума́ (sojtí s umá) [perfective] (Russian), чо́кнуться (čóknutʹsja) [colloquial] (Russian), perder la razón (Spanish), perder los papeles (Spanish), -rukwa na akili (Swahili), aklını kaçırmak (Turkish), aklını kaybetmek (Turkish), aklını yitirmek (Turkish), mất trí (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "50 50",
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      "word": "perdre el seny"
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      "roman": "cháno ta logiká mou",
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      "roman": "poterjátʹ rassúdok",
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      "roman": "sojtí s umá",
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      "word": "lose one's head"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "perdre el seny"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "瘋了"
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      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "失去理智"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "zijn verstand verliezen"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "perdre la raison"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "perdre la tête"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "perder a cabeza"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "desvariar"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "louquear"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "tolear"
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      "word": "χάνω τα λογικά μου"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "正気を失う"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "word": "postradać rozum"
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "perder a razão"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poterjátʹ rassúdok",
      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "roman": "sojtí s umá",
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      "roman": "čóknutʹsja",
      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "word": "чо́кнуться"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
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      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "aklını kaçırmak"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "aklını kaybetmek"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "aklını yitirmek"
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      "sense": "to become insane",
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