"lose one's temper" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /luːz wʌnz tɛmpə(ɹ)/ Audio: En-au-lose one's temper.ogg Forms: loses one's temper [present, singular, third-person], losing one's temper [participle, present], lost one's temper [participle, past], lost one's temper [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> one's temper}} lose one's temper (third-person singular simple present loses one's temper, present participle losing one's temper, simple past and past participle lost one's temper)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become angry or annoyed. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Categories (topical): Anger, Emotions Hypernyms: rage, react, respond Hyponyms: blow up [slang], explode, flare up, flame up, freak out, get one's knickers in a twist, get one's nose out of joint, hulk out Holonyms: anger Meronyms: clench [of fists], frown, glare, grit [of teeth], scowl, shout Related terms: count to ten, temper, annoyed, enrage, go crazy, tantrum Translations (to be explosively angry): حمق (ḥimiʔ) [South-Levantine-Arabic] (Arabic), qızmaq (Azerbaijani), qızışmaq (Azerbaijani), bere onetik irten (Basque), 發脾氣 (Chinese Mandarin), 发脾气 (fāpíqi) (Chinese Mandarin), 發火 (Chinese Mandarin), 发火 (fāhuǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), raivostua (Finnish), polttaa päreensä (Finnish), menettää malttinsa (Finnish), hypätä kattoon (Finnish), perdre son sang froid (French), perdre son calme (French), sortir de ses gonds (French), die Beherrschung verlieren (German), vor Wut kochen (German), perdere le staffe (Italian), perdere la pazienza (Italian), perdere la calma (Italian), uscire dai gangheri (Italian), arrabbiarsi (Italian), vedere rosso (Italian), 癇癪を起こす (kanshaku o okosu) (Japanese), 怒り出す (okoridasu) (Japanese), 挙措を失う (kyoso o ushinau) (Japanese), tū ngā pihi (Maori), tātāhau (Maori), perder as estribeiras (Portuguese), теря́ть самообла́дание (terjátʹ samoobládanije) (Russian), горячи́ться (gorjačítʹsja) (Russian), perder los estribos (Spanish), gå i taket (Swedish), få spel (Swedish), ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྐྱེ (khong khro skye) (Tibetan), ཁོང་ཁྲོ་ལང (khong khro lang) (Tibetan), ཚིག་པ་ཟ (tshig pa za) (Tibetan), དགོངས་པ་ཁྲེལ (dgongs pa khrel) [honorific] (Tibetan), küplere binmek (Turkish), вихо́дити з се́бе (vyxódyty z sébe) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), ви́йти з се́бе (výjty z sébe) [perfective] (Ukrainian), phát cáu (Vietnamese), potchî foû d’ ses clicotes (Walloon), monter a sminces (Walloon), colli tymer (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-lose_one's_temper-en-verb-3h6gSMol Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Basque translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with South Levantine Arabic translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tibetan translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Walloon translations, Terms with Welsh translations Synonyms: blow one's top, go ape, go apeshit, go ballistic, go postal, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, lose it, lose one's cool, lose one's rag, pop one's cork, go bitchcakes, Note: All terms are idiomatic unless stated otherwise., blow a fuse, blow a gasket, blow one's stack, cut up nasty, cut up rough, do one's block [Australia], do one's nut, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, flip out, fly into a rage, fly off the handle, forget oneself, get bent out of shape, get one's back up, get one's dander up, get one's Irish up, get one's shirt out [dated], go bananas, go HAM [African-American-Vernacular-English], go H.A.M. [African-American-Vernacular-English], go ham, go off [not idiomatic], go spare [Britain], have a cow, have a fit, have kittens, lose one's marbles, lose one's mind, lose one's temper, lower the boom, pitch a fit, put the boom down, see red, shit a brick [vulgar], steam [figuratively], teen [not idiomatic, obsolete], throw a fit, throw one's toys out of the pram, vent one's gall, wax wode [not idiomatic, obsolete]

Inflected forms

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          "code": "ajp",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "bere onetik irten"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "發脾氣"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fāpíqi",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "发脾气"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "發火"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fāhuǒ",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "发火"
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        {
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "raivostua"
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "polttaa päreensä"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "menettää malttinsa"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "hypätä kattoon"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "perdre son sang froid"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "perdre son calme"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "sortir de ses gonds"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "die Beherrschung verlieren"
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        {
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          "word": "perdere le staffe"
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "vedere rosso"
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "tātāhau"
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "perder as estribeiras"
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "få spel"
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          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "khong khro skye",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྐྱེ"
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          "code": "bo",
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "roman": "tshig pa za",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "ཚིག་པ་ཟ"
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          "word": "དགོངས་པ་ཁྲེལ"
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          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "küplere binmek"
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          "roman": "vyxódyty z sébe",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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          "roman": "výjty z sébe",
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "發脾氣"
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    {
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fāpíqi",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "发脾气"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "發火"
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      "roman": "fāhuǒ",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "raivostua"
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      "word": "polttaa päreensä"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "menettää malttinsa"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "hypätä kattoon"
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      "word": "perdre son sang froid"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdre son calme"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "sortir de ses gonds"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "die Beherrschung verlieren"
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    {
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "vor Wut kochen"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdere le staffe"
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdere la calma"
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    {
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "uscire dai gangheri"
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    {
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "arrabbiarsi"
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    {
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      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "vedere rosso"
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kanshaku o okosu",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "癇癪を起こす"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "okoridasu",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "怒り出す"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyoso o ushinau",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "挙措を失う"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "tū ngā pihi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "tātāhau"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perder as estribeiras"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "terjátʹ samoobládanije",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "теря́ть самообла́дание"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorjačítʹsja",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "горячи́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perder los estribos"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "gå i taket"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "få spel"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "khong khro skye",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྐྱེ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "khong khro lang",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "ཁོང་ཁྲོ་ལང"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "tshig pa za",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "ཚིག་པ་ཟ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "dgongs pa khrel",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "tags": [
        "honorific"
      ],
      "word": "དགོངས་པ་ཁྲེལ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "küplere binmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vyxódyty z sébe",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "вихо́дити з се́бе"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "výjty z sébe",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ви́йти з се́бе"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "phát cáu"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "potchî foû d’ ses clicotes"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "monter a sminces"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "colli tymer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lose one's temper"
}

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