Panic

(noun.) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.

(noun.) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; 'panic in the stock market'; 'a war scare'; 'a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building'.

(verb.) cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; 'The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners'.

(verb.) be overcome by a sudden fear; 'The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away'.

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• And indeed they did; they were quite beyond my uncle's management, and kept the old gentleman in a panic for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• An instant later I heard him running down, and he burst into my consulting-room like a man who is mad with panic. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• And Hermione came near, and her bosom writhed, and Ursula was for a moment blank with panic. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Ord attacked the troops that had crossed the bridge and drove them back in a panic. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The retreat of the enemy along most of his line was precipitate and the panic so great that Bragg and his officers lost all control over their men. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I have only hobbled those which are liable to panic, Pablo said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• One suspects at times that our national cult of optimism is no real feeling that the world is good, but a fear that pessimism will produce panics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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