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panic1 /ˈpanɪk /noun [mass noun]1Sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour: she hit him in panic [in singular]: he ran to the library in a blind panic...- So now here I am, full of fear and panic and anxiety once again.
- Anxiety symptoms were also high, with 64% reporting symptoms of fear, panic or anxiety.
- But it is far more likely that you would be affected by fear and panic than a terrorist weapon.
Synonyms alarm, anxiety, nervousness, fear, fright, trepidation, dread, terror, horror, agitation, hysteria, consternation, perturbation, dismay, disquiet, apprehension, apprehensiveness informal flap, fluster, state, cold sweat, funk, tizzy, tizz North American informal swivet 1.1 [count noun] A state of widespread financial alarm provoking hasty action: he caused an economic panic by his sudden resignation [as modifier]: panic selling...- We should strengthen the IMF's ability to prevent financial panics from turning into full-scale economic meltdowns such as we've seen in Argentina.
- This suspension was unprecedented in that it was not preceded by a financial panic or a sudden demand for coin.
- Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences.
1.2 [count noun] informal A frenzied hurry to do something: a workload of constant panics and rush jobs...- She span off into a frenzied panic that could only be alleviated by rushing round to the neighbour's for a cup of tea.
- It always starts near Kensington plaza, where people have abandoned their bags of groceries to rush home in a panic.
- As panic ensued gardaí rushed to the scene urging staff and customers to evacuate the building, as they searched to find the potential raider.
verb (panics, panicking, panicked)1Feel or cause to feel panic: [no object]: the crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit [with object]: talk of love panicked her...- It was crowded and I started panicking and feeling faint.
- The crowd panicked and some jumped into a well to be crushed by those jumping after them.
- Oh, to be sure, there are always folks who panic, or loot.
Synonyms be alarmed, be scared, be nervous, be afraid, overreact, become panic-stricken, take fright, be filled with fear, be terrified, be agitated, be hysterical, lose one's nerve, be perturbed, get overwrought, get worked up, go/fall to pieces, lose control, fall apart informal flap, get in a flap, lose one's cool, get the jitters, get into a tizzy/tizz, run around like a headless chicken, freak, freak out, get in a stew, get the willies, get the (screaming) heebie-jeebies British informal get the wind up, go into a (flat) spin, have kittens, lose one's bottle, throw a wobbly, have an attack of the wobblies frighten, alarm, scare, unnerve, fill with panic, agitate, horrify, terrify informal throw into a tizzy/tizz, freak, freak out, spook British informal put the wind up 1.1 [with object] ( panic someone into) Drive someone through panic into (hasty action): we are not going to be panicked into a decision...- The only goal came in the 25th minute when Crouch's knock-down panicked Scharner into reckless contact with Owen a yard inside the area.
- They will also realise, no matter how long it takes, that they will not panic London into submission, nor will their ultimate aims succeed.
- There were a number of options on the table, some of which were attractive, but the manager says he will not be panicked into making a decision until the future becomes clear.
PhrasesOriginEarly 17th century: from French panique, from modern Latin panicus, from Greek panikos, from the name of the god Pan, noted for causing terror, to whom woodland noises were attributed. Pan was the Greek god of flocks and herds, usually represented with the horns, ears, and legs of a goat on a man's body. His sudden appearance was supposed to cause terror similar to that of a frightened and stampeding herd. In Greek his name probably originally meant ‘the feeder’ referring to his role as god of flocks, but it was early on interpreted as from pan meaning ‘all’ and he was identified as a god of nature or the universe. Panic button originated in the US Air Force. Second World War bombers had an emergency bell system that was used if the aircraft was so badly damaged by fighters or flak that it had to be abandoned—the pilot gave a ‘prepare-to-abandon’ ring and then a ring meaning ‘jump’.
Rhymesaldermanic, botanic, Brahmanic, Britannic, epiphanic, galvanic, Germanic, Hispanic, interoceanic, Koranic, manganic, manic, mechanic, messianic, oceanic, organic, Puranic, Romanic, satanic, shamanic, talismanic, titanic, transoceanic, tympanic, volcanic panic2 /ˈpanɪk /(also panic grass) noun [mass noun]A cereal and fodder grass of a group including millet.- Panicum and related genera, family Gramineae.
Two of the most common, but functionally indeterminate, grass grains regularly identified from American Bottom sites are panic grass (Panicum sp.) and beardgrass....- In microsites with higher light intensity, little bluestem, big bluestem, Indian grass, and panic grass dominated.
- I live on the unfashionable west side of Santa Fe, where the neighborhood is small and funky, adobe houses sitting in well-tended yards of flax and hollyhocks or the neglected ones of dirt and panic grass with a few old car parts thrown in.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin panicum, from panus 'ear of millet' (literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'), based on Greek pēnos 'web', pēnion 'bobbin'. |