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单词 frenzy
释义 fren·zy
I. noun
or phren·sy \-zē, -zi\
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English frenesie, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin phrenesia, alteration of Latin phrenesis, from phreneticus, after such pairs as Latin poeticus poetic: poesis poetry, poesy
1.
 a. : a temporary madness or insane derangement : a paroxysm from a mania
  < was generally docile but became uncontrollable in his frenzies >
  < in a rage amounting to a frenzy >
 b. : a strong mental disturbance resembling such a derangement and usually resulting in a violent passion
  < the old man's drunken frenzies and the way his mulatto brood ran shrieking … when he turned on them with a horsewhip — Ellen Glasgow >
 c. : a violent mental or emotional agitation : abnormal or unusual excitement
  < a disturbing air of frenzy about his writing >
  < a frenzy of delight >
  < the sexual frenzy — E.A.Armstrong >
  < a frenzy of resentment — American Guide Series: Oregon >
  < a frenzy of mystical exaltation — C.S.Kilby >
2.
 a. : the activity of one that is frenzied
  < a frenzy of skiing >
  < small watercourses race in a white-capped frenzy down mountain and forest slope — American Guide Series: Oregon >
 especially : intense persistent usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity
  < the wild frenzy of religious camp meetings — J.T.Adams >
  < the frenzy of the geysers — Margaret Clarke >
 b. : an activity of this kind
  < until the imagination is tortured into a frenzy of baffled guessing — J.W.Beach >
  < a frenzy of high living — Arnold Bennett >
  < the frenzy of wartime production — American Guide Series: Michigan >
  < a frenzy of abuse >
 c. : intensity of effort
  < in order to wrest a living from the soil … had to toil with a frenzy approaching desperation — D.L.Cohn >
Synonyms: see mania
II. adjective
(-er/-est)
dialect England : angry
III. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
: to affect with frenzy : drive to madness
 < the sport which frenzies our colleges each autumn — Frederic Morton >
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