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Panic   /pˈænɪk/   Listen
noun
Panic  n.  (Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Panic grass (Bot.), any grass of the genus Panicum.


Panic  n.  
1.
A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
2.
By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.


adjective
Panic  adj.  Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. "A panic fright."





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"Panic" Quotes from Famous Books



... miserable state of things in the country at that particular period. The dreadful typhus was now abroad in all his deadly power, accompanied, on this occasion, as he always is among the Irish, by a panic which invested him with tenfold terrors. The moment fever was ascertained, or even supposed to visit a family, that moment the infected persons were avoided by their neighbors and friends, as if they carried death, as they often did, ...
— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine • William Carleton
... street had heard, and seen as well, was evident from the frantic haste with which they scrambled for the sidewalk, crowding those already there over yard fences, into stores and stairways in an effort to get clear of the roadway. A sudden panic had seized them, for well did they know the meaning of the shooting ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains • Frank Gee Patchin
... (desert-demons) as opposed to the Mas (hill-demon) and Telal (who steal into towns); the Ogress of our tales and the Bala yaga (Granny-witch) of Russian folk-lore. Etymologically "Ghul" is a calamity, a panic fear; and the monster is evidently the embodied horror of ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... SANDY, at first panic-stricken, and then remorsefully conscious, throws glass down, with gesture of fear and loathing. OAKHURST advances ...
— Two Men of Sandy Bar - A Drama • Bret Harte
... all, but it was enough. Jack knew that most of his father's money was invested with the firm that had written the letter, and now they had been wiped out in a money panic. Jack had no idea how much of his father's fortune was affected, but it was evident from Mr. Chadwick's collapse that he had been dealt ...
— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner


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