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frantically

/fran-tik-lee/US // ˈfræn tɪk li //

慌忙地,慌慌张张地,慌张地,疯狂地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a desperate, wild, or frenzied way, out of extreme excitement, pain, fear, etc.:All this time I was searching frantically in the trash can for my missing keys until, just when I thought all was lost, my finger touched something that jingled.

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Examples

  • The three adults repeatedly shouted my name as they frantically searched the house, until my father looked out the front window.

  • Instead, she set about frantically calling anywhere and everywhere that might be able to offer child care, even just for a week or two.

  • The driver frantically asked if I knew where he could get service.

  • Slack’s popular corporate messaging app is getting several new updates to help the wave of companies frantically shifting to accommodate employees now working from home.

  • Trix is introduced here for the first time, and watching Emily frantically search for all of her mother-in-law’s old gifts so that she can display them properly is so much fun that it makes sense Trix would become a favorite recurring guest.

  • From doorways that lined a long corridor, people emerged at a run and began searching frantically.

  • Staffers were frantically compiling information from eyewitnesses and Japanese sources.

  • The mother continues to row frantically, but the boat begins to drift slowly downstream.

  • The others disappeared into the school, frantically hustling to try to make deals.

  • Backward, backward, backward Ghana ran, and frantically…toward its own endangered goal.

  • They looked down at Grandfather Mole, who was still scurrying frantically about the garden.

  • Again Wilkins shouted at the top of his voice, and waved his arms more frantically than before.

  • They frantically waved their hats, ceased firing, and greeted their erstwhile enemies as comrades.

  • Fumbling in his haste, he produced a pocket communicator, stabbed frantically at the dial and spoke urgently into it.

  • The others called, too, until we were all shouting frantically for Tilly.