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How to pronounce haywire in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms amiss, awry, wrong


has gone completely haywire.
Type Words
Synonyms around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky
Type Words
Type of wire

Examples of haywire

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The four suspects planned a home invasion, but it went haywire, Stewartson said.
From the orlandosentinel.com
But in narcoleptics, the hormone is largely absent, and the system goes haywire.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
The same day, phone circuits went haywire in two Southern California area codes.
From the time.com
Crazy things happen on the track and on any given day something can go haywire.
From the stltoday.com
I file this under minority reports generated by a precog that has gone haywire.
From the economist.com
Yet within a minute of my husband being in the car again, the signals go haywire.
From the sfgate.com
The second quarter took 61 minutes, and a game that was tied at 7 went haywire.
From the jsonline.com
The service problems began on Jan. 24, when a maintenance procedure went haywire.
From the businessweek.com
Something had just gone haywire in the country and they were applauding the song.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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