Panicking

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  panic
       n 1: an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: {terror}]
       2: 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" [syn: {scare}]
       v 1: be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when


            told that final exams were less than a week away"
       2: cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere
          thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
       [also: {panicking}, {panicked}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  panicking
       See {panic}