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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

And if you ought not to face them it is cowardly to go headlong into them, just because of some other boy's foolish dare.

From Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Chidley, Howard J. (Howard James)

If you see the new moon face on, you will go headlong through the month.

From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Bergen, Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson)

I may declare, and even believe, that there is no solid wall before me, yet if I go headlong against it, I am bruised all the same.

From Miss Lou by Roe, Edward Payson

go headlong

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