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panic
noun as in extreme fright
noun as in sudden drop in value in financial markets
verb as in become, make afraid or distressed
Example Sentences
Just two young kids experiencing the panic, pain, and then the miracle, of new birth.
Hence, I suspect, the panic, the lockdown, the capitulation.
Someone was sure to capitalize on the Ebola panic, and Dr. Joseph Alton is that guy.
In one sentence, he asserts: “Panic is worse than complacency.”
Panic—and the inevitable panicking about the panic—is counterproductive.
We stood staring after the fugitives in perfect bewilderment, totally unable to explain their apparently causeless panic.
Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.
He was naturally frightfully upset about it, and a regular panic sprang up in the neighbourhood.
She should not show panic because of the mysterious noise in the loft of the abandoned Carter house.
General Wheatonʼs brigade captured Malinta, and the insurgents fled panic-stricken after having suffered severely.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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