EGAVE

panic

About 9.71 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).
  2. adjective Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
  3. adjective Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
  4. adjective Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
  5. noun Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
  6. noun Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); any computer system crash.
  7. noun A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
  8. noun A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.

Similar words

terror scare crisis alert freak calm scaremongering critical relax alarmism

Often followed by

of and disorder attacks in that attack was at

Word family

panicked panickier panickiest panicking panicky panics

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