'Panic' definitions:
Definition of 'panic'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: panic, scare]
verb
Be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
verb
Cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
Definition of 'Panic'
From: GCIDE
- Panic \Pan"ic\, a. [Gr. paniko`s of or pertaining to Pa`n Pan, to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.] Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. "A panic fright." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Panic'
From: GCIDE
- Panic \Pan"ic\, n. [Gr. to~ paniko`n (with or without dei^ma fear): cf. F. panique. See Panic, a.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Panic'
From: GCIDE
- Panic \Pan"ic\, n. [L. panicum.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass. [1913 Webster]
- Panic grass (Bot.), any grass of the genus Panicum. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'panic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject fear,
- affright,
- agitation,
- alarm,
- anxiety,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- attack of nerves,
- awe,
- bear panic,
- belly laugh,
- blue funk,
- blue story,
- boggle,
- buck fever,
- case of nerves,
- cold feet,
- confound,
- consternation,
- cowardice,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- discomfit,
- dismay,
- double entendre,
- dread,
- ethnic joke,
- excessive irritability,
- fear,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- fight shy,
- frenzy,
- fright,
- frighten,
- fun,
- funk,
- funny story,
- gag,
- go to pieces,
- good one,
- good story,
- horrification,
- horror,
- howl,
- howler,
- hysteria,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- jib,
- joke,
- jump,
- jump a mile,
- laugh,
- morbid excitability,
- nerves,
- nervosity,
- nervous stomach,
- nervousness,
- panic fear,
- panickiness,
- phobia,
- play,
- point,
- put in fear,
- put to flight,
- put to rout,
- rib tickler,
- riot,
- rout,
- scare,
- scatter,
- scream,
- send scuttling,
- shy,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- skedaddle,
- spell of nerves,
- sport,
- stage fright,
- stampede,
- start,
- start aside,
- startle,
- state of nerves,
- story,
- terrify,
- terror,
- tic,
- trepidation,
- twitching,
- uneasiness,
- unholy dread,
- unnerve,
- vellication,
- visual joke,
- wheeze,
- wow,
- yarn