I. noun
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a freak storm (= an unexpected and unusually violent one )
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The freak storm caused chaos.
control freak
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■ NOUN
control
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This action has led to Madonna yet again being portrayed as a ruthless control freak , which she probably is.
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When it comes to conniving, deceptive control freaks , ex-boyfriends have nothing on record companies.
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Am I a control freak just because I want a little order in my life?
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Some bosses are control freaks , while others are too unclear about what they want and need from you.
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A self-confessed control freak and workaholic, no-one is allowed in his control room.
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It's the designer suits and the $ 100 haircuts and the iron-fisted control freaks along the sidelines.
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Her husband's a control freak - he won't let her leave the house without him.
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If people can't put you into a category, they tend to just think of you as a freak .
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One Beatle's freak is reported to have paid $18,000 for Paul McCartney's birth certificate.
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Raw vegetables and nuts have always been a favourite with health-food freaks.
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The guy is probably just some freak who saw her on TV and decided he loves her.
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A brawler this is, an alley fighter, a hopped-up offensive gone freak .
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And Magruder really was a card-carrying bicycle freak who had even ridden his 10-speed to the White House every day.
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By some freak of the acoustics his name seemed to echo round and round the chamber.
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Jeez, they didn't have to put her in with a freak .
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Some bosses are control freaks, while others are too unclear about what they want and need from you.
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The combine freaks pop up every year.
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There were no obvious freaks, transvestites, monsters or exotic creatures.
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What was I doing consorting with these freaks?
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
accident
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It had been a freak accident .
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Call it a freak accident and, hopefully, be done with it and race on.
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In the same year, as the result of a freak accident in the Alps, Steve's friend Georges Bettembourg perished.
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Six years ago Stephen Dent was paralysed in a freak accident .
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I spent all afternoon full of animosity towards him - and then he died in that freak accident .
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Apparently nobody was injured in this freak accident .
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Betty beheaded by hotpot ladle in freak accident . 2.
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It would appear to everyone that Ewan Famber had died in a freak accident .
result
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A freak result - nerves - you must have written gibberish.
show
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Not that this is a freak show .
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He was like a freak show at the carnival.
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Pull the plug on your freak show , Jerry.
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It turns the symphony into a freak show .
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Boyle has always liked to play circus barker for life's extremes, and what better freak show than the environmental apocalypse?
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Of course they are freak shows .
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They'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold.
storm
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Chaos struck Llandudno Hospital as the freak storm resulted in incredible scenes of havoc and distress.
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On the way home Caledor's ship was separated from the rest of the High Elf fleet by a freak storm .
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The yield would be maximum if there were no freak storms .
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When Gabriel and she had been a couple they had run into her one day when there had been a freak storm .
wave
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The freak wave broke top to bottom across the entire length of the Bay.
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A freak wave overturned the flimsy vessels and they were left floating in the water in their lifejackets.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A freak wave wrecked most of the seafront.
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He broke his leg in a freak training accident.
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Two planes were lifted up and thrown across the tarmac by a freak gust of wind.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A freak result - nerves - you must have written gibberish.
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Another bicycle, another freak pumpkin, this one weighing perhaps more than Lois.
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Call it a freak accident and, hopefully, be done with it and race on.
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In the same year, as the result of a freak accident in the Alps, Steve's friend Georges Bettembourg perished.
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It turns the symphony into a freak show.
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Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements.
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We maintain more freak religions and cults than all the rest of the world combined.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In movies you can stop the shooting for 10 minutes and not have everyone freak out.
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They'd freak totally, if their boss went around in jeans.
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This is serious shit, and it's no wonder some people are freaking out and saying reading will be it.