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go headlong

VERB

trip

Synonyms

STRONGEST

skip slide slip slip on stumble topple tumble

STRONG

buck canter confuse disconcert founder frolic hop lapse lope lurch miscalculate misstep pitch play plunge sprawl spring unsettle

WEAK

fall over go wrong lose balance lose footing make a faux pas slip up throw off

Antonyms

WEAK

correct fix

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"I don't think I would go headlong into another heartbreak story … just did that, takes a lot out of you."

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2022

As she told McDonagh, "I don't think I would go headlong into another heartbreak story . . . just did that, takes a lot out of you."

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2022

You must know what it means—for us two—if you go headlong against him.

From All-Wool Morrison by Day, Holman

While thinking of this, another 'Well, sir, why don't you obey orders?' started me into the lower rigging, which I began with the greatest difficulty to climb, expecting at every step to go headlong overboard.

From Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha by Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles

To run away with a man's clothes and then go headlong into the bayou and get his hat all wet!

From The Arkansaw Bear A Tale of Fanciful Adventure by Ver Beck, Frank

go headlong

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