nnoun.feelingan overwhelming feeling of fear and anxietySynset:affright terror
Derivationally Related Form:terrorizeterrifyterrorisepanickypanicaffrightterrorist
Hypernyms:fear fearfulness fright
Inherited Hypernyms:panicfearemotionfeelingstateattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:swivet
nnoun.statesudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated eventsSynset:scare
Examples:- panic in the stock market
- a war scare
- a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
Derivationally Related Form:panicscaryscare
Hypernyms:anxiety anxiousness
Inherited Hypernyms:panicanxietypsychological stateconditionstateattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:red scare
vverb.emotionbe overcome by a sudden fearExamples:- The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away
Derivationally Related Form:panic
Hypernyms:dread fear
Inherited Hypernyms:panicfear
Direct Hyponyms:freakfreak outgross out
Full Troponyms:freak out
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s PP | Sam and Sue --- (apply to: panic)
vverb.emotioncause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panicExamples:- The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners
Derivationally Related Form:panic
Hypernyms:terrify terrorise terrorize
Inherited Hypernyms:panicterrifyfrightenstimulatearousemake
Causes:panic
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The bad news will --- him (apply to: panic)