Panic-stricken

Definition: Panic-stricken

Panic-stricken

Adjective

1. Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted".

Synonyms within Context: Panic-stricken

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fear	Aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Panic-stricken

Domain	Title
Books	Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children; For Every Despairing, Bewildered or Panic-Stricken Parent--Advice from America's Reigning Doyenne of Etiquette (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sounds Captioned with "Panic-stricken".

Play	Caption
	Afraid; alarmed; apprehensive; blanched; dismayed; distressed; frightened; horrified; intimidated; nervous; panic-stricken; petrified; run scared; scared; scared stiff; shocked; spooked; startled; stunned; suspicious; terrified; terror-stricken; timid; ti.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Panic-stricken

"Panic-stricken" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Panic-stricken" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Panic-stricken

Language		Translations for "panic-stricken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		恐慌触击 (Panic-struck), 恐慌 (panic, panicky). (various references)

Finnish		yleisö joutui pakokauhun valtaan (the audience was panic-stricken). (various references)

Greek		πανικόβλητος (panicky). (various references)

Hungarian		páni félelembe esett (panic-struck), megrémült (afeard, aghast, dumbfounded, panic stricken, panic-struck, scared), fejvesztett (panicky, panic-struck). (various references)

Korean		공황 치�" (Panic-struck). (various references)

Manx		lane sevreain. (various references)

Pig Latin		anic-strickenpay.(various references)

Russian		охваченный паникой (panic stricken, planet-stricken, planet-struck). (various references)

Vietnamese		hoảng sợ (afraid, frightened, panic, planet-stricken, planet-struck), hoang mang sợ hãi (panic). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Panic-stricken

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-k-n-n-p-r-s-t"
	-3 letters: accipiters, carnitines, nitpickers, panickiest, picnickers.
	-4 letters: accipiter, cannister, carnitine, circinate, crankiest, crankpins, nitpicker, panickier, picnicker, practices, precincts, precisian, prickiest, spinnaker.
	-5 letters: acentric, ancients, canikins, canister, canities, canniest, cantrips, capeskin, caprices, capsicin, ceratins, cinerins, cisterna, citrines, crankest, crankpin, crannies, creatins, crickets, crinites, crispate, entrains, icterics, inciters, inertias, insectan, instance, kainites, kaiserin, keratins, kinetics, kinetins, narceins, nitpicks, painters, paintier, panniers, pantries, paretics, parities, pasticci, pertains, pickiest, picrates, picrites, pinaster, pinnaces, piracies, piscinae, practice, practise, precinct, priciest, prickets, pristane, pristine, rainiest, ranpikes, repaints, scantier, sirenian, skinnier, stickier, stickpin, stinkier, stricken, tacrines, triennia, tripacks.
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