Dictionary Definition
panic
Noun
1 an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
[syn: terror]
2 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" [syn: scare]
Verb
1 be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students
panicked when told that final exams were less than a week
away"
2 cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic;
"The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
[also: panicking,
panicked]panicked adj :
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"
[syn: panicky, panic-stricken,
panic-struck,
terrified, frightened]panicked See
panic
User Contributed Dictionary
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Verb
panicked- past of panic
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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