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defreak

verb

Etymology

From de- + freak.

  1. derived from *frekaz✻
  2. derived from *frek✻
  3. derived from frec — “desirous, greedy, eager, bold, daring”
  4. derived from frek — “insolent, daring”
  5. inherited from frīcian — “to leap, dance”
  6. inherited from friken
  7. prefixed as defreak — “de + freak”

Definitions

  1. To cause no longer to be freakish, or a freak.

  2. To cause no longer to be freaked out

    To cause no longer to be freaked out; to calm down.

    • I tell myself this is progress. After all, the first step to defreaking arachnaphobes is to hand them a picture of a cute baby spider; the big-hairy-tarantula-fondling comes later.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for defreak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA