Definition of panic Panic
/pæˈnɪk/ - [panik] - pan•ic
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What does panic mean?
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NounPlural: panics |
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| panic - an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | ||
| terror, affright | ||
| fright, fearfulness, fear the trait of being afraid | ||
| panic - 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" | ||
| scare | ||
| anxiety, anxiousness a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune | ||
Verb |
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| panic - cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners" | ||
| panic cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners" | ||
| terrify, terrorise, terrorize fill with terror; frighten greatly | ||
| panic - be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away" | ||
| dread, fear be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" | ||
| freak, freak out, gross out lose one's nerve; "When he saw the accident, he freaked out" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- panic (Noun)
Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals. - panic (Noun)
Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices. - panic (Verb)
To feel overwhelming fear. - panic (Adjective)
Pertaining to the god Pan. - panic (Adjective)
Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- panic (n.)
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass. - panic (a.)
Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. - panic (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. - panic (a.)
By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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panic
To be overcome by a sudden fear and lose control. -
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To cause sudden fear and loss of control.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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panic
pan′ik, n. extreme or sudden fright: great terror without any visible ground or foundation: a state of terror about investments produced by some startling collapse in credit, impelling men to rush and sell what they possess.—adj. of the nature of a panic: extreme or sudden: imaginary.—adj. Pan′icky (coll.), inclined to panic or sudden terror, affected by financial panic.—n. Pan′ic-mong′er, one who creates panics.—adjs. Pan′ic-strick′en, Pan′ic-struck, struck with a panic or sudden fear. [Orig. an adj.; Gr. panikon (deima), 'panic' (fear), from panikos, belonging to Pan, god of the woods.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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panic
A sudden fright; especially, a sudden fright without real cause, or terror inspired by a trifling cause, or misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic. These terrors are attributed to Pan, as some say, because when Osiris was bound by Typho, Pan and the satyrs appearing, cast him into a fright; or because he frightened all the giants that waged war against Jupiter; or, as others say, that when Pan was Bacchus’s lieutenant-general in his Indian expedition, being encompassed in a valley by an army of enemies far superior to them in number, he advised the god to order his men to give a general shout, which so surprised the enemy that they immediately fled from their camp. And hence it came to pass that all sudden fears impressed upon men’s spirits without any just reason were, by the Greeks and Romans, called panic terrors.
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