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panic Definition:
- Panic is a sudden sensation of fear, which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frantic agitation consistent with an animalistic fight-or-flight reaction. Panic may occur singularly in individuals or manifest suddenly in large groups as mass panic .
| Panic (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum |
| Panic (a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless |
| Panic (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright |
| Panic (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs. |
| Panic-stricken (a.) Alt. of Panic-struck |
| Panic-struck (a.) Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. |
| panic button a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency, "the circuit is operated by a panic button", "when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button" |
| panic / terror / affright an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety |
| scare / panic attack a sudden attack of fear |
| panic grass any grass of the genus Panicum, grown for grain and fodder |
| panic disorder an anxiety disorder characterized by unpredictable panic attacks, the attacks are usually severe but brief |
| panic scare sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events, "panic in the stock market", "a war scare", "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building" |
| panic cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic, "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners" |
| panic be overcome by a sudden fear, "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away" |
| panicky / panicked / panic-stricken / panic-struck / terrified / frightened thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation, "became panicky as the snow deepened", "felt panicked before each exam", "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd", "the terrified horse bolted" |
panic Synonyme:
| 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 |
| panic-stricken afraid aghast alarmed appalled distressed fearful frenzied horrified horror-struck hysterical in a tizzy jittery jumpy nervous panic-struck panicky perturbed petrified scared stiff stunned stupefied terrified terror-stricken terror-struck unnerved upset |
| panicked all up with beat beaten bested confounded defeated discomfited done for done in down fallen fixed floored hors de combat in a panic lambasted lathered licked on the skids outdone overborne overcome overmastered overmatched overpowered overridden overthrown overturned overwhelmed panic-prone panic-stricken panic-struck panicky put to rout routed ruined scattered settled silenced skinned skinned alive stampeded trimmed trounced undone upset whelmed whipped worsted |