Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion. Synonyms:frantic, frenetic, frenzied."Frenetic screams followed the accident" , "A frenzied look in his eye"
... is in peril. Let us march to her defence. Let us proclaim it to the world that we recognize that the measures to liberate the Third Estate from the slavery in which for centuries it has groaned find only obstacles in those orders whose phrenetic egotism sees in the tears and suffering of the unfortunate an odious tribute which they would pass on to their generations still unborn. Realizing from the barbarity of the means employed by our enemies to perpetuate our oppression that we have everything ... — Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
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