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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

For when I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that degrading attitude, and pride myself upon it.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

I don't mean to go headlong against other folks' prejudices; but the fact is, a man never knows with what impetus he is going till he comes up against a post.

From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

If he had spoken his thoughts he would have declared that Sir Felix had reached an age at which, if a man will go headlong to destruction, he must go headlong to destruction.

From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony

go headlong

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