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Synonyms for frantically

in a violent, strenuous way

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Synonyms for frantically

in an uncontrolled manner

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Slowly at first and at last frantically he searched through the remaining pockets of his clothing.
Goaded to madness by the cruel misfortune that had tripped me when success was almost within my grasp, I tore frantically across the intervening space, and just beneath the rope's dangling end I put my earthly muscles to the supreme test.
The banth slipped and clutched frantically at the deck.
you idiot whoa!" The Saw-Horse would probably have paid no attention to this, but just then it stepped a leg into a gopher-hole and stumbled head-over-heels to the ground, where it lay upon its back, frantically waving its four legs in the air.
Lop-Ear and I began paddling frantically. Whiz-zip-bang !
When "Dixie" was being played a dark-haired young man sprang up from somewhere with a Mosby guerrilla yell and waved frantically his soft- brimmed hat.
"I have nothing, I tell you--I have nothing," he cried, frantically.
He caught her hand in his, and began to clasp it frantically, calling: "Look at me!
Frantically the lion sought to scramble up the bole of the tree.
Numa was striking frantically at the grass rope with his fore claws.
Eagerly and frantically they tried to move it by their combined weight.
"You're right!" said the stage-manager, frantically pushing his hands through his rebellious hair.
A DISHONEST Gain was driving in its luxurious carriage through its private park, when it saw something which frantically and repeatedly ran against a stone wall, endeavouring to butt out its brains.
Frantically he alternately paddled furiously toward her and rose to his feet waving his paddle and crying aloud in an attempt to attract the attention of those on board.
Yet he did not cease to paddle frantically toward the steamer, and at last, after what seemed an eternity, the bow of the dugout bumped against the timbers of the Kincaid.