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go off
[goh] 
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go off
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
| Synonyms: | befall, blow, blow up, burst, detonate, discharge, fire, happen, mushroom, occur, pass, take place |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
| Synonyms: | blast, bomb, burst, detonate, dynamite, erupt, go off, mushroom, rupture, shatter |
| Antonyms: | deflate |
| Main Entry: | come off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transpire |
| Synonyms: | befall, betide, break, chance, click, come about, develop, go, go off, go over, hap, happen, occur, pan out, prove out, succeed, take place |
| Antonyms: | not happen |
| Main Entry: | curdle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sour; change into coagulated substance |
| Synonyms: | acerbate, acidify, acidulate, clabber, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curd, ferment, go off, spoil, thicken, turn, turn sour |
| Main Entry: | erupt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give forth, eject with force |
| Synonyms: | appear, belch, blow up, boil, break out, burst, cast out, detonate, discharge, emit, eruct, explode, extravasate, flare up, go off, gush, hurl, jet, pour forth, rupture, spew, spit, spout, spurt, throw off, touch off, vent, vomit |
| Main Entry: | flare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erupt, blow |
| Synonyms: | blaze, boil over, break out, burn, burn up, burst, dart, dazzle, explode, fire up, flash, flicker, flutter, fume, glare, glow, go off, lose control, rant, seethe, shimmer, shoot, waver |
| Notes: | flair is a natural talent or distinctive and stylish elegance while a flare (noun) is a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate - flare (verb) means to burn brightly or to erupt or intensify suddenly |
| Main Entry: | go crazy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become insane |
| Synonyms: | blow a gasket, blow one's mind, blow one's stack, blow one's top, crack up, flip one's lid, flip out, fly off the handle, freak out, go ballistic, go bananas, go batty, go berserk, go bonkers, go buggy, go cuckoo, go daffy, go haywire, go kooky, go loco, go loony, go mental, go nuts, go nutty, go off, go off one's rocker, go off the deep end, go off the wall, go psycho, go wacko, go wacky, lose control of oneself, lose it, lose one's cool, lose one's mind, wig out |
| Main Entry: | mushroom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout; grow quickly |
| Synonyms: | augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, grow rapidly, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, shoot up, spread, spring up |
| Antonyms: | shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | pop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | jump, burst |
| Synonyms: | appear, bang, blow, crack, dart, explode, go, go off, hit, insert, leap, protrude, push, put, report, rise, shove, snap, sock, stick, strike, thrust, whack |
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