Definitions for Panic
Panic
pan·ic
Spelling: [pan-ik]
IPA: /ˈpæn ɪk/
Panic is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Panic (acinp).
Definitions for Panic
noun
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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.
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an instance, outbreak, or period of such fear.
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Finance. a sudden widespread fear concerning financial affairs leading to credit contraction and widespread sale of securities at depressed prices in an effort to acquire cash.
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Slang. someone or something that is considered hilariously funny:
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Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
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the grain.
adjective
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of the nature of, caused by, or indicating panic:
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(of fear, terror, etc.) suddenly destroying the self-control and impelling to some frantic action.
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(initial capital letter) of or relating to the god Pan.
verb (used with object)
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to affect with panic; terrify and cause to flee or lose self-control.
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Slang. to keep (an audience or the like) highly amused.
verb (used without object)
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to be stricken with panic; become frantic with fear:
Origin of Panic
1595-1605; earlier panique French Greek Panikós of Pan; see -ic
Examples for Panic
I have allowed myself to give way to panic like a child in the dark.
panic—and the inevitable panicking about the panic—is counterproductive.
Hence, I suspect, the panic, the lockdown, the capitulation.
In one sentence, he asserts: “panic is worse than complacency.”
The panic excited by the squatter skunk had been another lesson.
After the panic had once seized the enemy there was but little firing.
But he had scarcely marked the paper when he started back, in a panic.
Just two young kids experiencing the panic, pain, and then the miracle, of new birth.
Someone was sure to capitalize on the Ebola panic, and Dr. Joseph Alton is that guy.
Seized with a panic, my mother, to make a man of me at once, sent me to —— school.