"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 [Australia] 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), 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), potchî foû d’ ses clicotes (Walloon), monter a sminces (Walloon), colli tymer (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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          "word": "have kittens"
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          "word": "pitch a fit"
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          "word": "see red"
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          "word": "shit a brick"
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          "word": "steam"
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          "word": "throw a fit"
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          "word": "throw one's toys out of the pram"
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          "code": "ajp",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḥimiʔ",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "tags": [
            "South-Levantine-Arabic"
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          "word": "حمق"
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        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "qızmaq"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "qızışmaq"
        },
        {
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "bere onetik irten"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "發脾氣"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fāpíqi",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "发脾气"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "發火"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fāhuǒ",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "发火"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "raivostua"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "polttaa päreensä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "menettää malttinsa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "hypätä kattoon"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "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"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "sortir de ses gonds"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "die Beherrschung verlieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "perdere le staffe"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "perdere la pazienza"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "perdere la calma"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "uscire dai gangheri"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "arrabbiarsi"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "vedere rosso"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "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"
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        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kyoso o ushinau",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "挙措を失う"
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "tū ngā pihi"
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "tātāhau"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "perder as estribeiras"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "terjátʹ samoobládanije",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "теря́ть самообла́дание"
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        {
          "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"
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          "word": "དགོངས་པ་ཁྲེལ"
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        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "küplere binmek"
        },
        {
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to be explosively angry",
          "word": "potchî foû d’ ses clicotes"
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        {
          "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"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:lose one's temper",
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      "word": "lose one's rag"
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      "word": "go bitchcakes"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:lose one's temper",
      "word": "have kittens"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:lose one's temper",
      "word": "lose one's mind"
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      "word": "lose one's temper"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:lose one's temper",
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      "word": "see red"
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      "word": "throw one's toys out of the pram"
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      "code": "ajp",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥimiʔ",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "tags": [
        "South-Levantine-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "حمق"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "qızmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "qızışmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "bere onetik irten"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "發脾氣"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fāpíqi",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "发脾气"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "發火"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fāhuǒ",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "发火"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "raivostua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "polttaa päreensä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "menettää malttinsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "hypätä kattoon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdre son sang froid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdre son calme"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "sortir de ses gonds"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "die Beherrschung verlieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdere le staffe"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdere la pazienza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "perdere la calma"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "uscire dai gangheri"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "arrabbiarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be explosively angry",
      "word": "vedere rosso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "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": "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"
    }
  ],
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}

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