haywireadjective
uk/ˈheɪ.waɪər/us/ˈheɪ.waɪr/informalgo haywire
to stop working, often in a way that is very sudden and noticeable:
The television's gone haywire.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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