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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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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

"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

They did not care to go headlong at a wall of men and carriages, though if the ground had been open they could have turned on a sixpence.

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard

But I love children and therefore I know something about them, so I did not go headlong into the business, looking for snubs.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia

I loved the boy and life with him would have been a pleasure but for the anxious moments when it seemed he would go headlong to perdition despite my utmost efforts.

From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by Goss, John

go headlong

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