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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

Example Sentences

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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

Dive, dīv, v.i. to dip or plunge into water: to go headlong into a recess, forest, &c.: to plunge or go deeply into any matter.—n. a plunge into water: a swoop.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It was evident that this novel method of visiting patients found no favour in his eyes; he was obviously nervous, and twice during the ascent I quite expected to see him go headlong.

From At the Point of the Sword by Hayens, Herbert

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