[
US
/ˈpænɪk/
]
[ UK /pˈænɪk/ ]
[ UK /pˈænɪk/ ]
NOUN
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
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sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
panic in the stock market
a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
a war scare
VERB
-
be overcome by a sudden fear
The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away -
cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners
How To Use panic In A Sentence
- It is therefore unsurprising that such seizures are sometimes confused with panic attacks.
- This is because people who suffer Panic Disorder, when they experience tetany for the first time, often think incorrectly that they are about to die.
- Severe paruresis in school aged children can also lead to complete school refusal by the child, as well as more pervasive anxiety that can spread into other areas of life, such as social anxiety or even panic attacks. WebWire | Recent Headlines
- Witnesses said that two Hispanic men were seen toting the garments away.
- I duly surrendered my little device, only to feel a sudden pang of panic on my way back to my seat. Times, Sunday Times
- The panic I felt was the risk of fact obliteration, or an inversion of truths, all the truths I had known. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
- As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
- The boss always panics over/about the budget every month.
- The first chapter defines anxiety and the related constructs of worry, fear, and panic, and then goes on to discuss social anxiety in detail.
- I asked, trying to keep my voice calm, even though panic was fogging my brain.