panicky
惶恐不安,惊慌失措,恐慌,慌乱的
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Definitions
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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.
- : an instance, outbreak, or period of such fear.
- : 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.
- : Slang. someone or something that is considered hilariously funny: The comedian was an absolute panic.
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- : of the nature of, caused by, or indicating panic: A wave of panic buying shook the stock market.
- : suddenly destroying the self-control and impelling to some frantic action.
- : of or relating to the god Pan.
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pan·icked, pan·ick·ing.
- : to affect with panic; terrify and cause to flee or lose self-control.
- : Slang. to keep highly amused.
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pan·icked, pan·ick·ing.
- : to be stricken with panic; become frantic with fear: The herd panicked and stampeded.
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Examples
As a woman in her early 60s with diabetes and a history of stress-induced asthma, the early months of the pandemic were peaks of panic and exhaustion for every 12-hour shift my mother put on the clock.
Don’t panic, though—there are still plenty of other things you can do.
The Houstons, both in their early sixties, were not the kind of people to panic in the face of an emergency.
When the boy saw his former teacher, he panicked and ran away.
Oh, and she never ever panics after a stock market meltdown.
It's a panicky move coming amid a deluge of corruption allegations a week before key elections.
“He was embarrassed and panicky and apologized and said ‘I wanted to see if I could get myself free,’” she told the court.
You heard the panicky tones of operatives flooded with calls from the field about technical snafus and mass confusion.
There is also no reason for a panicky Islamophobic response.
People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling.
He turned quickly and made off into the woods, followed by a loud, daunting laugh which spurred his pace to a panicky gallop.
She had an instant of hesitation, of an almost panicky desire to go back and repair her folly, ere it was too late.
What was coming in was uniformly excited, some panicky, and all in fairly standard Lingua Terra.
She had a drooping Southern accent, and a manner which fluctuated between arch audacity and fits of panicky hauteur.
But, if you can collect and arrange your gray brain matter, and suppress all panicky feeling, it is easily got along with.