panic
US: /ˈpænɪk/
UK: /pˈænɪk/
UK: /pˈænɪk/
English Vietnamese dictionary
panic /'pænik/
- danh từ
- (thực vật học) cây tắc
- (thực vật học) cây tắc
- tính từ
- sự hoảng sợ, sự hoang mang sợ hãi
- sự hoảng sợ, sự hoang mang sợ hãi
- tính từ
- hoảng sợ, hoang mang sợ hãi
- hoảng sợ, hoang mang sợ hãi
- ngoại động từ
- làm hoảng sợ, làm hoang mang sợ hãi
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [U, C, usually sing.]
1 a sudden feeling of great fear that cannot be controlled and prevents you from thinking clearly: a moment of panic + They were in a state of panic. + Office workers fled in panic as the fire took hold. + There's no point getting into a panic about the exams. + a panic attack (= a condition in which you suddenly feel very anxious, causing your heart to beat faster, etc.) + a panic decision (= one that is made when you are in a state of panic) + A look of panic crossed his face. + The mere thought of flying fills me with panic.
2 a situation in which people are made to feel very anxious, causing them to act quickly and without thinking carefully: News of the losses caused (a) panic among investors. + Careful planning at this stage will help to avoid a last-minute panic. + There's no panic (= we do not need to rush), we've got plenty of time. + panic buying / selling (= the act of buying / selling things quickly and without thinking carefully because you are afraid that a particular situation will become worse and cause you to lose money)
Idioms: panic stations (BrE, informal) a situation in which people feel anxious and there is a lot of confused activity, especially because there is a lot to do in a short period of time: It was panic stations when the deadline was brought forward by a week.
+ verb (-ck-) to suddenly feel frightened so that you cannot think clearly and you say or do sth stupid, dangerous, etc.; to make sb do this: [V] I panicked when I saw smoke coming out of the engine. + [VN] The gunfire panicked the horses.
Phrasal Verbs: panic sb into doing sth [usually passive] to make sb act too quickly because they are afraid of sth: We will not be panicked into making a decision before we have considered all the evidence.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 terror, alarm, fear, fright, dread, horror, dismay, consternation, hysteria; anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, nervousness:
As the speeding car veered towards us, a feeling of panic gripped me.
v.
2 be terrified or alarmed or fearful or frightened or terror-stricken or terror-struck, dread, fear, lose one's nerve; frighten, scare; Colloq go to pieces, fall apart, Brit lose one's bottle:
I panicked, turned the wheel the wrong way, and crashed the car into a tree. Gregory panics at the slightest sign of danger
3 frighten, scare, alarm, terrify, unnerve:
Something panicked the horses and one kicked out his stall door.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
blind, mad, sheer, total | mild, minor | momentary | growing, mounting, rising | sudden | last-minute
There was a last-minute panic when nobody could find the tickets.
| moral
a moral panic over rising crime rates
QUANT.
surge, wave
I felt a surge of panic when I realized my mistake.
VERB + PANIC
feel
He felt panic rising within him.
| get into, go into
She went into a mad panic when she couldn't find the exit.
| cause, create, spread | fill sb with, throw sb into
The thought of having to be in charge threw him into a mild panic.
PANIC + VERB
break out, spread (across/through, etc. sth), sweep over/through sth
Panic swept through the crowd.
| seize sb | grow, rise | subside | ensue
In the ensuing panic, they lost each other.
PANIC + NOUN
attack
She still has panic attacks, two years after the accident.
| button
The shopkeeper pressed the panic button and the police arrived in minutes.
| buying, selling
Panic buying turned the petrol shortage into a crisis.
PREP.
in (a) ~
He jumped out of the car in a panic. People fled in panic.
| with ~
Her mind went blank with panic.
| ~ about
panic about food contamination
| ~ among
panic among the population
| ~ over
The keys were lost during the panic over the fire alarm.
PHRASES
a feeling/sense of panic, in a state of panic, a look of panic
A look of panic spread across the boy's face.
| a moment of panic, a moment's panic
Concise English dictionary
panicked|panicking|panics'pænɪk
noun
+an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
+sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
verb
+be overcome by a sudden fear
+cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
