panic

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety (Freq. 7)
• Syn:
terror, affright
• Derivationally related forms:
affright (for: affright), terrorist (for: terror), terrorize (for: terror), terrorise (for: terror), terrify (for: terror), panicky
• Hypernyms:
fear, fearfulness, fright
• Hyponyms:
swivet
2. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events (Freq. 2)
- panic in the stock market
- a war scare
- a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
• Syn:
scare
• Derivationally related forms:
scarey (for: scare), scare (for: scare)
• Hypernyms:
anxiety, anxiousness
• Hyponyms:
red scare

II - verb

1. be overcome by a sudden fear (Freq. 1)
- The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away
• Hypernyms:
fear, dread
• Hyponyms:
freak out, freak, gross out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- Sam and Sue panic
2. cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic (Freq. 1)
- The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners
• Hypernyms:
terrify, terrorize, terrorise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will panic him

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  scare, terror, affright