an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
Used in a Sentence
panic
How to use panic in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for panic.
Editorial note
Fear got the best of you, and in your panic \n you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler.
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Quick take
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of panic gathered in one view.
sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for panic.
noun
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
noun
sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
See also: scare
verb
be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
verb
cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
Example sentences
Fear got the best of you, and in your panic \n you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler.
LastPass did everything right, and yet every headline was along the lines of "LastPass has been hacked, panic!
Constantly update to the latest development version, making them panic quite a bit.
If you have issues with anxiety, depression, or panic, you should probably stay away from psychedelic drugs outright.
The strange part was two years later I got a call from the contractor, they were in a panic because the driver didn't work with the latest version of SCO and they had to "urgently deploy a lot of these things" into a undisclosed "middle eastern territory".
It takes a surprising amount of effort to make a conscious choice to break those norms and switch to emergency mode, which is why most people are forced to rely on some even more dramatic event triggering a panic/fear/fight-or-flight response to jump into that mode.
I'm constantly harping on other people about backups, but only a couple of days ago got my development machine on our network backup system; I'm pretty anal about passwords, but still I'll panic pretty badly if my laptop is ever stolen, because in there, somewhere, is probably a plain text password stored in a file that I've forgotten about, and there'll be a chance that I'll forget to change that particular password if I find myself having to suddenly change every single password for everything I've got access to.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use panic in a sentence?
Fear got the best of you, and in your panic \n you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler.
What does panic mean?
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
What part of speech is panic?
panic is commonly used as noun, verb.