freak (someone) out
freak
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /friːk/ us /friːk/
very unusual or unexpected: 不寻常的，怪异的
freak accidentShe was crushed in a freak (= very unlikely) accident in a cave in France.她在一起离奇的事故中被压死在法国的一个山洞里。
The village was destroyed by a freak storm.这座村庄毁于一场异常的风暴。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Strange, suspicious and unnatural
aberrant
aberrantly
abnormal
abnormally
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freakishness
funnily
funnily enoughidiom
ghostliness
ghoul
perversely
perversity
perverted
pervy
presence
wack
wackadoodle
wackily
wackiness
wacky

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Not expected or planned

freak | American Dictionary

freak
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/frik/(alsofreakish, us/ˈfri·kɪʃ/)

freakadjective[not gradable] (UNUSUAL)

extremely unusual or unlikely:
She died in a freak automobile accident.
A freak midsummer hailstorm caught us all by surprise.
freak
noun[ C ]
us/frik/

freaknoun[C] (ENTHUSIAST)

infml
a person who is enthusiastic about the stated thing:
My eight-year-old grandson is a real sports freak.
This guy is a control freak (= wants to control everything).

freaknoun[C] (UNUSUAL PERSON/THING)

someone or something that is strange or unusual and not like others of its type:
In my school, everyone thought you were some kind of freak if you didn’t like sports.

Examples of freak

freak
In times past such individuals were labeled "freaks" and appeared in circus sideshows.
She freaked out tons of people at this meeting, but at this meeting it's only area managers and directors and above are invited.
Intellectuals are still seen by party leaders as genetically flawed, and by ordinary people as underpaid freaks, always making trouble for themselves.
They are not freak occurrences within the natural order of things, but created by inheritance, training or initiation.
If a miracle is freak occurrence against the laws of nature then if it continuously happens then it will become a law of nature itself.
Only a few candidates recognised the anomaly and suggested it was unusual due to 'freak' conditions or student error.
Even so, there were still icing problems during freak weather conditions soon after completion.
What if because of some freak accident all children conceived from today onward would be immortal?
Here, the fantastical sphinx, herself a freak of nature, becomes the emblem of good design, abstract and laden with symbolic meaning.
Outliers are unusual or 'freak' values which differ greatly in magnitude from the majority of the data values.
Parisian critics came to see the song as a generic freak, falling outside the tradition of grand opera, and they even offered certain editing suggestions.
In the low-control condition, participants again received one of two possible scenarios, this time involving a freak hurricane.
However, not long after taking over, he suffered head injuries in a freak accident.
Talking of animals, the brief for further freaks.
Climate protection is not a marginal subject for environment freaks, it is one of the greatest challenges of our time.
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