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Meanings of freak in English

Portuguese
adicto
Catalan
addicte

Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction.

adicto
Portuguese
esdrúxulo
Catalan
monstre
Spanish
aborto

A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.

esdrúxulo

Lose one's nerve.

Usage of freak in English
1
I only wish I could see how; it is the oddest freak.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
2
We'd seen the horror of war as glamorous freak-out in Apocalypse Now.
The Irish Times
3
It is a fashion-freak; all connected with it are people of fashion.
Life on the Mississippi
4
I went into freak-out mode and couldn't believe what I had done.
The Guardian
5
Ezra had laughed, saying his family had their freak-show granola moments, too.
Perfect
6
This is an extraordinary freak of yours, Natalie; I cannot understand it.
Sunrise
7
Now the Japanese race was the freak and paradox among Eastern peoples.
The Strength of the Strong
8
He had no wish to pose as a freak in her eyes.
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
9
On the morning of her wedding day, Poppy is having a freak-out.
News.com.au
10
And my own answer to this is that it is a freak.
Before Adam
11
A remarkable freak of nature, which impresses the beholder with silent awe.
Entertainments for Home, Church and School
12
I won't aid and abet you in any such freak as this.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
13
It was a freak, but then Beth had freaks now and then.
Beth Woodburn
14
Some strange freak of wilfulness impelled him to pursue this unintelligible persecution.
The Market-Place
15
A freak of fate had thrown these three radically different types together.
Tarzan the Untamed
16
A genuine freak, this time, I thought, and promptly forgot the item.
Greener Than You Think
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