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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 heard him go headlong across the passage and up the uncarpeted stairs to his bedroom.

From The Invisible Man by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The more you try to pull him back the more impetus you give him to go headlong down.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

Kleinboy presently making his appearance, I called to him to ride in, and bring me my steed; but he refused, and asked me if I wished him to go headlong to destruction.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

go headlong

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