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Frenzy   /frˈɛnzi/   Listen
noun
Frenzy  n.  (pl. frenzies)  Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. "All else is towering frenzy and distraction." "The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling."
Synonyms: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; alienation; aberration; delirium. See Insanity.



verb
Frenzy  v. t.  To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness (R.) "Frenzying anguish."



adjective
Frenzy  adj.  Mad; frantic. (R.) "They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head."






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"Frenzy" Quotes from Famous Books



... find the vessel heeling over to the other side, he imagined, in his drunken bewilderment, that the ship had struck, and that himself and his gold were in danger of perishing with her. Filled with frenzy at this idea, he rushed out upon deck, where the general apparent confusion confirmed his fears; then he sprung upon the bulwarks, gazed around him in utter dismay at the crew in busy motion about him, tottered on his insecure ...
— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson

... through the barren chambers, or clings inextricably round the chasms of ruin; nor can it but regard with awe the unconquerable spirit which still tempts or betrays the sagacities of selfishness into error or frenzy which is believed ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... shouted somebody. "Mac ain't no fool, if he does chaw hay," said another, and the crowd laughed. They were losing that frenzy, largely imitative and involuntary, which actuates a mob. There was something counteracting in the ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... of frenzy she slammed and bolted her window, and made a wild spring back to the bed. She burrowed down under the blankets, and lay there huddled, not daring to stir for a long, ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... kingdom of Old Romance. It is probably not even the most ancient of the provinces of balladry, but it has some claim to be regarded as the central one in fame and in wealth—the one that yields the purest and richest ore of poetry. It is that wherein the passion and frenzy of love is not merely an element or a prominent motive, but is the controlling spirit and the ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie


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