be/become/get paranoid• Folks in the Police Department are getting paranoid.• Inderrieden, a retiredflightattendant, says she tries not to be paranoid.• I didn't have time to get paranoid about bloodpoisoning as my heart suddenly stopped beating.• Then she got involved with Carol, and then she got paranoid about this surveillance business.• When Laughton caught on to what was going on, he became paranoid and refused to work.• It paid to be paranoid below the Net.• Suffering from a second bout of mental depression in 1993, Roth becomes paranoid, suicidal, insufferable and inscrutable.• You're getting paranoid, that's your trouble.