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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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
panicked
adjective: thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" [syn: {panicky}, {panic-stricken}, {panic-struck}, {terrified}, {frightened}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
panicked See {panic}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "panicked": all up with, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, hors de combat, in a panic, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panic-prone, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicky, put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, whelmed, whipped, worsted
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