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Panic

Panic Meaning & Definition
Panic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Panic?

[n] an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
[n] sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"
[v] cause panic in; fill with panic; "Th mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
[v] feel panic; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Panic: scare | terror

Related Terms | Find terms related to Panic: abject fear | affright | agitation | alarm | anxiety | apprehension | apprehensiveness | attack of nerves | awe | bear panic | belly laugh | blue funk | blue story | boggle | buck fever | case of nerves | cold feet | confound | consternation | cowardice | dirty joke | dirty story | discomfit | dismay | double entendre | dread | ethnic joke | excessive irritability | fear | fidgetiness | fidgets | fight shy | frenzy | fright | frighten | fun | funk | funny story | gag | go to pieces | good one | good story | horrification | horror | howl | howler | hysteria | jape | jest | jestbook | jib | joke | jump | jump a mile | laugh | morbid excitability | nerves | nervosity | nervous stomach | nervousness | panic fear | panickiness | phobia | play | point | put in fear | put to flight | put to rout | rib tickler | riot | rout | scare | scatter | scream | send scuttling | shy | sick joke | sidesplitter | sight gag | skedaddle | spell of nerves | sport | stage fright | stampede | start | start aside | startle | state of nerves | story | terrify | terror | tic | trepidation | twitching | uneasiness | unholy dread | unnerve | vellication | visual joke | wheeze | wow | yarn

See Also | anxiety | anxiousness | dread | fear | fear | fearfulness | freak | freak out | fright | gross out | panic | red scare | terrify | terrorise | terrorize

Panic In Webster's Dictionary

\Pan"ic\, n. [L. panicum.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Panicum}; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass. {Panic grass} (Bot.), any grass of the genus {Panicum}.
\Pan"ic\, a. [Gr. ? of or pertaining to ? Pan, to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.] Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. ``A panic fright.'' --Dryden.
\Pan"ic\, n. [Gr. ? (with or without ? fear): cf. F. panigue. See {Panic}, a.] 1. A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic. 2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

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