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Panic   /pˈænɪk/   Listen
noun
Panic  n.  (Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Panic grass (Bot.), any grass of the genus Panicum.


Panic  n.  
1.
A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
2.
By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.


adjective
Panic  adj.  Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm. "A panic fright."





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"Panic" Quotes from Famous Books



... answer for it that the immediate effect is a great drop in the price of stones. We should have a second agent at the Cape diamond fields, and he would lay our money out by buying in all that he could while the panic lasted. Then, the original scare having proved to be all a mistake, the prices naturally go up once more, and we get a long figure for all that we hold. That's what I mean by making 'a corner in diamonds.' There is no room in it for any miscalculation. It is as certain as a proposition ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... by the fleeing inhabitants at the mouth of the harbour. The day following Christopher Carlile's satisfactory survey the fleet was anchored off the town. The sight of it threw the whole district into panic. A pompous governor of Galicia hastened to Vigo, and on his arrival there he took fright at the number of ships and the dreaded name of the pirate chief who was in command. It would be futile to ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman
... forcible effect upon rascals, for they immediately conclude you think yourself superior to them, and then they will think so too: whatever comes unexpected, is apt to dismay; whole armies have been seized with a panic from the most trifling artifice of the opposite general, and such as, by a minute's reflection, would have produced a contrary effect: the King's troops gave way at Falkirk; the reason was, they were dismayed at seeing the rebels (I beg pardon) come down pell mell to attack them ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 - Volume 1 (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... believe to have been a panic of snoring to hear the train clattering over the sleepers and points, and to see—oh, human, brotherly sight!—the broad level light of morning stream out of the east. We were stealing into a city asleep. Tall flat houses rose in the chill mist to our left and stared blankly ...
— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett
... Ass made such a frightful din in the cave, kicking and braying with all his might, that the Goats came running out in a panic of fear, only to ...
— The AEsop for Children - With pictures by Milo Winter • AEsop


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