発はっ狂きょう

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発狂する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Describes a state of losing one's mind or becoming mentally deranged. Often used in serious contexts, but can also appear in hyperbolic expressions.

〈事こと〉で発はっ狂きょうするto go crazy because of something
あまりの忙いそがしさで発はっ狂きょうしそうだった。
I felt like I was going to lose my mind from how busy I was.
発はっ狂きょうしそうになるto feel like one is about to go crazy (often hyperbolic)
締しめ切きりが近ちかくて発はっ狂きょうしそうになった。
With the deadline so close, I felt like I was about to lose my mind.
発はっ狂きょう寸すん前ぜんだto be on the verge of going insane
彼かれは仕し事ごとのストレスで発はっ狂きょう寸すん前ぜんだ。
He's on the verge of losing his mind from work stress.

狂きょう気き
狂気 is the abstract, literary term for madness itself, while 発狂 describes the act or event of going insane.
気きが狂くるう
気が狂う is a colloquial, everyday way to say someone has gone mad, while 発狂 sounds more clinical or dramatic.
精せい神しん錯さく乱らん
精神錯乱 is a clinical, medical term for mental derangement, whereas 発狂 is a more general and often hyperbolic word for going crazy.
狂くるうN3
発狂する is a formal, clinical word for going insane, while 狂う is more general and can also be used hyperbolically.

正しょう気きN1
正気 means being of sound mind, the direct opposite of the madness described by 発狂.

発はっ光こう
発光 (to emit light) shares the same first kanji and a similar shape with 発狂 (to go mad) but means something completely unrelated.

Compound of 発 (hatsu, 'to start, to manifest') and 狂 (kyō, 'madness'). The reading はっきょう is a regular sound change from はつきょう.