panic
noun
[ ˈpanɪk ]
• sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.
• "she hit him in panic"
Similar:
alarm,
anxiety,
nervousness,
fear,
fright,
trepidation,
dread,
terror,
horror,
agitation,
hysteria,
consternation,
perturbation,
dismay,
disquiet,
apprehension,
apprehensiveness,
flap,
fluster,
state,
cold sweat,
funk,
tizzy,
tizz,
swivet,
panic
verb
• feel or cause to feel panic.
• "the crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit"
Similar:
be alarmed,
be scared,
be nervous,
be afraid,
overreact,
become panic-stricken,
take fright,
be filled with fear,
be terrified,
be agitated,
be hysterical,
lose one's nerve,
be perturbed,
get overwrought,
get worked up,
go/fall to pieces,
lose control,
fall apart,
flap,
get in a flap,
lose one's cool,
get the jitters,
get into a tizzy/tizz,
freak,
freak out,
get in a stew,
get the willies,
get the wind up,
go into a (flat) spin,
have kittens,
lose one's bottle,
throw a wobbly,
have an attack of the wobblies,
frighten,
alarm,
scare,
unnerve,
fill with panic,
agitate,
horrify,
terrify,
throw into a tizzy/tizz,
spook,
put the wind up,
Origin:
early 17th century: from French panique, from modern Latin panicus, from Greek panikos, from the name of the god Pan, noted for causing terror, to whom woodland noises were attributed.
panic
noun
• a cereal and fodder grass of a group including millet.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin panicum, from panus ‘ear of millet’ (literally ‘thread wound on a bobbin’), based on Greek pēnos ‘web’, pēnion ‘bobbin’.
