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- Dictionarypanic/ˈpanɪk/
noun
- 1. sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour: "she hit him in panic"
verb
- 1. feel or cause to feel panic: "the crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit" Similar Opposite
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a sudden, strong feeling of anxiety or fear that prevents reasonable thought and action and may spread to influence many people: [ U ] When fire broke out, 602 people died in the panic that ensued.
The meaning of PANIC is of, relating to, or resembling the mental or emotional state believed induced by the god Pan. How to use panic in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Panic.
a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals. Synonyms: fear, alarm. an instance, outbreak, or period of such fear.
If you panic, or if someone or something panics you, you become anxious or afraid, and act without thinking carefully.
People panic when they lose control over themselves because of fear, stress, or danger. A pilot who runs into turbulence and then flees from the cockpit has panicked. A surgeon who makes a mistake might panic for a second, before chilling out and helping the patient. It's hard to do a good job when you panic.
n. 1. a sudden overwhelming feeling of terror or anxiety, esp one affecting a whole group of people. 2. ( modifier) of or resulting from such terror: panic measures. vb, -ics, -icking or -icked.
a situation in which people are made to feel very anxious or frightened, causing them to act quickly and without thinking carefully. News of the losses caused (a) panic among investors. Careful planning at this stage will help to avoid a last-minute panic. There's no panic (= we do not need to rush), we've got plenty of time.
to suddenly feel so worried or frightened that you cannot think or behave calmly, or to make someone feel this way: Don't panic, we've got plenty of time. You panicked me by telling me I was late. (Definition of panic from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The driver apparently panicked and ran off the road.•. Will they panic at the first sign of trouble?•. The important thing is not to panic or become impatient because that way you could damage the document.•. Haminh didn't panic until she was past Corridor 12 and Fox drew close enough behind her to be heard.•.
Definition of panic verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
