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panic-stricken

/pan-ik-strik-uhn/US // ˈpæn ɪkˌstrɪk ən //

惊慌失措,惊惶失措,惊慌失措的,惊惶失措的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.

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Examples

  • Just two young kids experiencing the panic, pain, and then the miracle, of new birth.

  • Hence, I suspect, the panic, the lockdown, the capitulation.

  • Then came a call to pick up two stricken American health workers.

  • Someone was sure to capitalize on the Ebola panic, and Dr. Joseph Alton is that guy.

  • In one sentence, he asserts: “Panic is worse than complacency.”

  • We stood staring after the fugitives in perfect bewilderment, totally unable to explain their apparently causeless panic.

  • Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.

  • She didn't move for a minute, and the shocked, stricken look in her eyes grew more intense.

  • He might have been an insufferable young man for a poverty-stricken teacher of French to have as a fellow-lodger; but he was not.

  • Then, of a sudden, the little colour faded from her cheeks again, and she seemed stricken with a silence.