To panic is to become filled with fear and anxiety. Someone in a panic is totally freaking out.
A plant of the genus
Noun
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
Noun
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"
Verb
cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
Verb
be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
n.
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible
grain of some species of panic grass.
a.
Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of
fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
a.
A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless
fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of
danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
a.
By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension
concerning financial affairs.
Panic
Panic
Panic
A plant of the genus
Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright;
A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger;
Usage Examples
I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
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Other Usage ExamplesI suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.
And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
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