haywire
adjective /ˈheɪ.waɪər/
/-waɪr/ informalDefinition
go haywire › to stop working, often in a way that is very sudden and noticeable: The television's gone haywire.Not functioning
(Definition of haywire adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- burn out phrasal verb (BREAK)
- conk out phrasal verb
- deactivate verb
- dead adjective (EQUIPMENT)
- defunct adjective
- disable verb (MACHINE)
- disable verb (PERSON)
- downtime noun
- freeze verb (STOP WORKING)
- incapacitate verb
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage noun
- shudder to a halt idiom
- shut (sth) down phrasal verb
- shut (sth) off phrasal verb
- stop verb (FINISH)
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