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panic

an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"

cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"

be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"

Synonyms:

• abject fear,
• affright,
• agitation,
• alarm,
• anxiety,
• apprehension,
• apprehensiveness,
• attack of nerves,
• awe,
• bear panic,
• belly laugh,
• blue funk,
• blue story,
• boggle,
• buck fever,
• case of nerves,
• cold feet,
• confound,
• consternation,
• cowardice,
• dirty joke,
• dirty story,
• discomfit,
• dismay,
• double entendre,
• dread,
• ethnic joke,
• excessive irritability,
• fear,
• fidgetiness,
• fidgets,
• fight shy,
• frenzy,
• fright,
• frighten,
• fun,
• funk,
• funny story,
• gag,
• go to pieces,
• good one,
• good story,
• horrification,
• horror,
• howl,
• howler,
• hysteria,
• jape,
• jest,
• jestbook,
• jib,
• joke,
• jump,
• jump a mile,
• laugh,
• morbid excitability,
• nerves,
• nervosity,
• nervous stomach,
• nervousness,
• panic fear,
• panickiness,
• phobia,
• play,
• point,
• put in fear,
• put to flight,
• put to rout,
• rib tickler,
• riot,
• rout,
• scare,
• scatter,
• scream,
• send scuttling,
• shy,
• sick joke,
• sidesplitter,
• sight gag,
• skedaddle,
• spell of nerves,
• sport,
• stage fright,
• stampede,
• start,
• start aside,
• startle,
• state of nerves,
• story,
• terrify,
• terror,
• tic,
• trepidation,
• twitching,
• uneasiness,
• unholy dread,
• unnerve,
• vellication,
• visual joke,
• wheeze,
• wow,
• yarn