The best way to get rid of an earworm is to replace it with another.
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Earworm
//ˈɪəwɜːm//
Synonyms for "earworm" (3 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (1)
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1 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 19 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 耳蟲 /耳虫 noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Danish
1 entries- ørehænger noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Dutch
1 entries- oorwurm noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Faroese
1 entries- landaplága noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Finnish
2 entries- korvamato noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
- päässä soiva kappale noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
French
1 entries- ver d’oreille noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
German
1 entries- Ohrwurm noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Hungarian
1 entries- dallamtapadás noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Italian
1 entries- tormentone noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Japanese
1 entries- イヤーワーム noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Portuguese
2 entries- chiclete noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
- música chiclete noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Russian
1 entries- навязчивая мело́дия noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- èist-bhèist noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- muzika u glavi noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Spanish
2 entries- gusano auditivo noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
- gusano cerebral noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Swedish
1 entries- öronmask noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Tamil
1 entries- காதுப்புழு noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Turkish
1 entries- kulak kurdu noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sâu tai noun (tune that keeps replaying in one's head)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The song's refrain is a real earworm.
Source: tatoeba (10336717)
The chorus [of "Meeting in the Ladies Room" by Klymaxx] spawned an earworm so potent that women still mutter it as they exit for a bathroom break twenty years later.
Source: wiktionary
"It's been haunting me," she said. / "Yeah, well," he said, weakly. "Sometimes tunes do that." [...] "I don't mean that I heard it once before and caught an earworm. [...]"
Source: wiktionary
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