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panic
Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals
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All Definitions for Panic

Below are all the dictionary definitions of panic:

1Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals
2(countable) an instance of this
3A fright, a scare.
4Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
5Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
6To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”)
7Also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
8To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright
9To freak out, to lose one's head.
10A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
11A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show
12A riot, a scream.
13(US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
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15(computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
16A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum
17Panicgrass or panic grass.
18Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
19The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
20(computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
21Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).
22Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”)
23(by extension) any computer system crash. [(computing) On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error. The system halts, displays an error, and dumps kernel memory to disk.]
24Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”). [(Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).]

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About antonyms for panic

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