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Panic

noun

An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety. Synonyms: affright, terror.

Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events. Synonym: scare. "A war scare" , "A bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"

verb

(past panicked; past part. panicked; pres. part. panicking)

Be overcome by a sudden fear.

Cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic.

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"Panic" Quotes from Famous Books

... night we were all too exhausted to keep the usual watch, and when we awoke late the next morning our three Kolyma friends had bolted, taking some of our seal-meat with them. There can be no doubt that the fugitives perished trying to reach their home, for panic had deprived them of the reasoning power to steal a sled and dogs, or even a compass, which they might easily have done. The food the poor fellows took was perhaps sufficient for a week's consumption, ...

— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt

... that of the element; the Lydians, and the Persians who were in the garrison, rushed into the market-place, through which flowed the river of Pactolus. There they resolved to encounter the enemy. The invaders were seized with a sudden panic, possibly as much occasioned by the rage of the conflagration as the desperation of the foe; and, retiring to Mount Tmolus, took advantage of the night to retrace their march along ...

— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... reaching far around past the Boy's face, she fixed the stranger piercingly with her unwinking gaze, and emitted an ear-splitting shriek of laughter. The little coon's nerves were not prepared for such a strain. In his panic he fairly tumbled from his perch to the floor, and straightway fled for refuge to the broad back of the surprised ...

— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts

... knows the waves will toss themselves; he that knows a lion, will not much wonder to see his paw or to hear the voice of his roaring. And shall we that know our God, be stricken with a panic fear when he cometh out of his holy place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity? We should stand like those that are next to angels, and tell the blind world who it is that is thus mounted upon his steed, and that hath the clouds for the dust of his feet, and that ...

— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

... down the parchment, and raised his eyes to the prisoner. The latter looked round him quickly for a moment, a half-glimpsed panic for an instant in his ...

— The Man Who Saw the Future • Edmond Hamilton

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