(n.) Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.
(a.) Mad; frantic.
(v. t.) To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness
Example Sentences:
(1) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
(2) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
(3) Updated at 2.49am BST 2.19am BST Before Rudd got into his press conference, there was a selfie frenzy on the oval at St Mary's.
(4) The fracking frenzy seems to be coming to an early end both sides of the Atlantic.
(5) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
(6) Morsi's opponents plan to organise massive protests on 30 June, the first anniversary of his election – a day that is the subject of frenzied speculation on both the Egyptian streets and in its media.
(7) Its use of Twitter and the hashtag #sherlocklives was rather more de rigeur, ensuring that the show was trending on Twitter as fans were sent into a frenzy by its imminent return.
(8) His team had been working on a protest-themed game for the past two years, and the frenzy surrounding Occupy Central gave them an excuse to release a prototype.
(9) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(10) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
(11) In the latest CIA coup, America's leading spooks have sent the Twittersphere into a frenzy with their chucklesome debut on social media: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
(12) Let the games begin A week of awards-season frenzy begins on Sunday night in Hollywood with the Golden Globes .
(13) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(14) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
(15) Obama's first visit to South Africa as president is going ahead as planned despite the frenzy of anxiety and attention around Mandela's condition.
(16) Relations with the former secretary of state soured over budget issues and the Ofsted chief’s reluctance to share the ideological frenzy in Mr Gove’s entourage that treated the emancipation of schools from local authority control as an end in itself.
(17) He followed ordinary protesters, including a teacher and a high school student, and captured frenzied clashes between police and demonstrators.
(18) As home secretary, Mrs May has responsibility for subjects that, in the past, have worked Tory conferences into a frenzy: crime, policing, immigration and drugs among them.
(19) An accountable, democratic government would have no doubt achieved a less frenzied, more sustainable economic rise, with less corruption and environmental devastation.
(20) Estate agents and homebuyers have reported frenzied demand for property in the capital, with homes attracting huge numbers of would-be buyers.
Panic
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
(a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
(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.
(a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(3) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
(4) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(5) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
(6) The occurrence of secondary MDE was related to the length of time subjects were ill with panic disorder.
(7) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
(8) Patients with temporal lobe abnormalities were significantly younger at the onset of panic disorder and had more panic attacks compared with patients with normal MRI scans (p less than .05).
(9) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(10) The incidence of cardiac perceptions was about the same in both groups, but only subjects with panic attacks reported anxiety associated with such perceptions.
(11) Future work on biochemical causes of, and pharmacological treatments for panic attacks should take account of such factors.
(12) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
(13) Unresolved etiological issues requiring clarification in the near future include the following: (1) Are stressful events important in the development of panic, or are they more incidentally related?
(14) The results provide support for cognitive mediation in the "panic" component of spontaneous panic attacks.
(15) Most panics surged out of a pre-existing plateau of tonic anxiety which lasted most of the day.
(16) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
(17) Meantime, while we wouldn't want to you panic, Owen Gibson says vuvuzelas may be on their way to the Premier League .
(18) Some were less fortunate, but panic has given way to a Balkan pride and resilience.
(19) The findings are discussed in relation to conditions such as somatisation disorder, the syndrome of chronic unexplained pain, and panic disorder.
(20) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.