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Synonyms for panic

go to pieces

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Synonyms for panic

great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger

something or someone uproariously funny or absurd

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Synonyms for panic

an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

be overcome by a sudden fear

cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic

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"It's dog eat dog, and I ain't overlooking any meat that's floating around," Daylight proclaimed that afternoon to Hegan; and Simon Dolliver went the way of the unfortunate in the Great Panic who were caught with plenty of paper and no money.
By dinner, his brain was well clouded and the panic forgotten.
It was the dawn of the great panic. London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night oblivious and inert, was awakened, in the small hours of Monday morning, to a vivid sense of danger.
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran--a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
He knew the panic of terror which the scent of the Gomangani inspired within that savage breast, and as night drew on, hope died within his heart and in the stoic calm of the wild beast which he was, he resigned himself to meet the fate which awaited him.
The first panic of terror relieved, he urged his men forward to attack with their heavy elephant spears; but as they came, Tantor swung Tarzan to his broad head, and, wheeling, lumbered off into the jungle through the great rent he had made in the palisade.
He kicked down the wall of the Achaeans as easily as a child who playing on the sea-shore has built a house of sand and then kicks it down again and destroys it--even so did you, O Apollo, shed toil and trouble upon the Argives, filling them with panic and confusion.
When, however, he saw the Trojans swarming through the breach in the wall, while the Achaeans were clamouring and struck with panic, he cried aloud, and smote his two thighs with the flat of his hands.
With the coming of night in the mid-afternoon, the cries sounded closer as the pursuers drew in according to their custom; and the dogs grew excited and frightened, and were guilty of panics that tangled the traces and further depressed the two men.
Are now without second mate, and crew in a panic. Mate and I agreed to go armed henceforth and wait for any sign of cause.
The Blackfeet, struck with sudden panic, threw off their buffalo robes and fled, leaving one of their warriors dead on the spot.
The moral hesitation which decided the fate of battles was evidently culminating in a panic.
Such was his utter panic that he might well have bitten his veins and howled.
Sometimes clients get better from these traditional healers through the placebo effect.9,11 But when they do not get benefit from this customary treatment, they contact health professionals.Another reason for delayed diagnosis of panic disorder is that the psychological manifestations of panic disorder differ across countries.