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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Panic \Pan"ic\, noun [Gr. to~ paniko'n (with or without dei^ma fear): cf. F. panique. See {Panic}, adjective]
1. 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.
2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Panic \Pan"ic\, noun [L. panicum.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Panicum}; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
{Panic grass} (Bot.), any grass of the genus {Panicum}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Panic \Pan"ic\, adjective [Gr. paniko's of or pertaining to Pa'n Pan, to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.] Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. ''A panic fright.'' --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
panic
noun
1: an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: {terror}]
2: 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" [syn: {scare}]
verb
1: be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
2: cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners" [also: {panicking}, {panicked}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "panic": abject fear, affright, agitation, alarm, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, awe, bear panic, belly laugh, blue funk, blue story, boggle, buck fever, case of nerves, cold feet, confound, consternation, cowardice, dirty joke, dirty story, discomfit, dismay, double entendre, dread, ethnic joke, excessive irritability, fear, fidgetiness, fidgets, fight shy, frenzy, fright, frighten, fun, funk, funny story, gag, go to pieces, good one, good story, horrification, horror, howl, howler, hysteria, jape, jest, jestbook, jib, joke, jump, jump a mile, laugh, morbid excitability, nerves, nervosity, nervous stomach, nervousness, panic fear, panickiness, phobia, play, point, put in fear, put to flight, put to rout, rib tickler, riot, rout, scare, scatter, scream, send scuttling, shy, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, skedaddle, spell of nerves, sport, stage fright, stampede, start, start aside, startle, state of nerves, story, terrify, terror, tic, trepidation, twitching, uneasiness, unholy dread, unnerve, vellication, visual joke, wheeze, wow, yarn
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
panic
1. What {Unix} does when a critical internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix cannot continue. The {kernel} attempts to print a short message on the {console} and write an image of memory into the {swap area} on disk. This can be analysed later using {adb}. The kernel will then either wait in a {tight loop} until the machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic {reboot}. {Unix manual page}: panic(8). 2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem which prevents it from continuing to run. (1995-03-01)
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