panic
pa nik
- n an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- n sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
panic in the stock market - v be overcome by a sudden fear
The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away - v cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners
- TV anchors can't stop asking the question: "When is it time to start panicking?" How about never? Panic can only lead to stupid actions on a personal and national level .
- Actually, run a correction on that statement newspapers are in a "time to panic" spot.
- His first panic attack came on suddenly, in 1978, as he sat in a psychology-department meeting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was an assistant professor.