Meaning

A state of wild activity or panic..

Definitions by Sense

1. A state of wild activity or panic.
2. A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
3. (obsolete) Mad; frantic.
4. (uncommon) To render frantic.
5. (rare) To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.

Example Sentences

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She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.

It is during these frenzies that sharks have been known to bite everything in sight, including other sharks engaged in the same activity.

At the very end of the Middle Ages, Breughel depicted country folk wrapped up in fits of mass hysteria, and the historical accounts of these rural frenzies have explained the delirium in terms of the slender diet on which the poor had to subsist during the hungry gap.

The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.

The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond.

Word Forms

• frenzies
• phrenzy
• phrensy
• more frenzy
• most frenzy
• frenzying
• frenzied

Synonyms for frenzy

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When Should You Use Frenzy?

Use frenzy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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