frantic
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- s excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
frantic with anger and frustration - s marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
something frantic in their gaiety
- To those who will never follow in his footsteps, submerged as they are in a world of cynicism, self-interest and frantic consumption, nothing could be more vicariously gratifying .
- In two years of frantic stock swapping and cash deals, Randell acquired 27 companies (a student-insurance concern, a poster maker, the publishers of Europe on $5 a Day).
- All over the Reich desperate variations sounded on this single frantic theme: work and fight.