Panic

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to the god Pan.
 * 2) Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).

Noun

 * 1) Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
 * 2)  Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.

Verb

 * 1) To feel overwhelming fear.

Adjectives for Panic
terror-stricken; evident; commercial; guilty; precocious; long-feared; uncontrollable; intense; motionless;  bewildered;  sudden; memorable; subterranean; prevailing; widespread; needless.

Verbs for Panic
fall into—; flinch in—; flutter in—; halt—; hesitate in—; overcome with—; overwhelm by—; provoke—; quiver in—; result in—; shudder in—; sink into—; stampede in—; survive—; throb in—; throw into—; tremble in—; —deepens; —descends upon; —ensues; —hangs over; —overpowers; —seizes; — spreads.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From panique:, from  πανικός:. Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.

Derived terms

 * panic attack
 * panic button
 * panic disorder
 * panic room

Related terms

 * panicky

Noun

 * Arabic: ذعر, رعب, هلع, خوف
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 * French: panique
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 * Greek: πανικός


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: パニック, 恐慌
 * Korean: 공황 (恐慌)
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Verb

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 * German: in Panik geraten, in Panik verfallen
 * Russian: паниковать

Noun

 * 1) male virgin

Related terms

 * panna

Noun

 * 1) male virgin

Related terms

 * panna