"panic" noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: terror (http://word.sc/terror)] 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" [syn: scare (http://word.sc/scare)] verb be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away" cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners" [also: panicking (http://word.sc/panicking), panicked (http://word.sc/panicked)] Source: http://www.word.sc/panic

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