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Meaning of panic

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  panic
      n 1: an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: {panic},
           {terror}, {affright}]
      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: {panic}, {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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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