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UK
/fɹˈɛnzɪd/
]
[ US /ˈfɹɛnzid/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹɛnzid/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason
outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity
the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused
a frenzied attack
a frenzied mob -
excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
frenetic screams followed the accident
frantic with anger and frustration
a frenzied look in his eye
How To Use frenzied In A Sentence
- Beneath them, he seemed to see her innards in frenzied motion, as though she had snakes nesting in her. COLDHEART CANYON
- Ten days of frenzied reporting had not been stilled by increasingly angry Downing Street statements.
- In the final match, Lara scored yet another hundred but this was so frantic and frenzied that it could not stop the Australians from winning the match and squaring the series.
- The tribesmen were all bunched together in clumps, and they too seemed frenzied with excitement.
- In the end, despite these tight controls, the US-backed generals failed to win a majority of the vote, securing a plurality only through frenzied last minute stuffing of the ballot boxes.
- Throughout Thursday, the rush on Celtic merchandise in the big shopping centres of Dublin was frenzied.
- From rowing lake and canoe rapids to velodrome and swimming pool, the cheers of frenzied spectators have been spine-tingling. The Sun
- You mean with the approach of the season when everyone wants to blow a huge chunk of their cash on useless junk in an irresponsibly frenzied consumeristic orgasm ... and they're finding themselves without credit or as much spare cash as usual ... they're feeling a little extra down about the economy? CNN Poll: Optimism on economy fading
- Overall, he was a cool and composed point of reference for his team amid the general frenzied activity. Times, Sunday Times
- In fact, no matter how frenzied or freaked-out a song gets, there is always, somewhere, a sense of order and proportion.