Panic

Quick meaning: Panic is an adjective meaning (Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).

Meaning

(Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).

More Meanings

1. Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
2. Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
3. (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
4. (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
5. To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
6. (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
7. (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.

Example Sentences

Terrified, he looked down from the skies At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.

Suſpicion, with Sedition join'd, are near; And Rumors rais'd, and Murmurs mix'd, and Panique Fear.

At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.

But why dwell I ſo intolerable long about Tolerations, I hope my feares are but panick, againſt which I have a double cordiall.

Word Forms

• panick
• panics
• panicking
• panicked

Synonyms for panic

Depending on context, synonyms include panical, scare, terror.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include terror, scare, crisis, alert, calm, scaremongering.

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