Definitions for frenzy

frenzy fren·zy

Spelling: [fren-zee]
IPA: /ˈfrɛn zi/

Frenzy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in frenzy (efnryz).

Definitions for frenzy

noun

  1. extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
  2. a fit or spell of violent mental excitement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania:

verb (used with object)

  1. to drive to frenzy; make frantic:

Origin of frenzy

1300-50; Middle English frenesie Old French Late Latin phrenēsis Late Greek, for Greek phrenîtis; see phrenitis

Examples for frenzy

Their walk was a delight to him, their roaring gallop a frenzy of eager sensation.

The media goes into a frenzy when egregious examples of bad mothers occur, like Susan Smith or Casey Anthony.

Nor, in the blindness of his frenzy, had he seen when she had gone nor whither she went.

They could do neither now, for the fear that possessed them at sight of Israel's frenzy.

I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most frightening, quarantine.

Arriving at the Melody Ballroom, the atmosphere was a frenzy of joy, jubilation and holy bedlam.

Republicans have been in a frenzy since realizing that the IRS was missing two years of Lerner emails.

In a frenzy of activity, he set to work filling the wall of his studio.

Have a care, Jinkins, ere you provoke a desperate man to frenzy!

Clotilde, in a frenzy of grief, raised her arm, as if to drive her out of the room.

Word Value for frenzy
Scrable

21

Words with friends

21

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