Panic

Definition: Panic

Panic

Noun

1. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.

2. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare".

Verb

1. Feel panic; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away".

2. Cause panic in; fill with panic; "Th mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners".

Date "panic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Panic 1. What Unix does when a critical internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix cannot continue. The kernel attempts to print a short message on the console and write an image of memory into the swap area on disk. This can be analysed later using adb. The kernel will then either wait in a tight loop until the machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic reboot. Unix manual page: panic(8). 2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem which prevents it from continuing to run. (1995-03-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Health	A state of extreme acute, intense anxiety and unreasoning fear accompanied by disorganization of personality function. (references)
Literature	Panic On one occasion Bacchus, in his Indian expeditions, was encompassed with an army far superior to his own; one of his chief captains, named Pan, advised him to command all his men at the dead of night to raise a simultaneous shout. The shout was rolled from mountain to mountain by innumerable echoes, and the Indians, thinking they were surrounded on all sides, took to sudden flight. From this incident, all sudden fits of great terror have been termed panies. (See Judges vii. 18-21.) Theon gives another derivation, and says that the god Pan struck terror into the hearts of the giants, when they warred against heaven, by blowing into a sea-shell. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Public Administration	Acute and overwhelming sense of fear and dread, usually of sudden onset and most often self-limiting and of short duration, from a few seconds to hours, the accompanying restlessness resulting in an urge to escape. A frequent but not lasting phenomenon following disasters and major emergencies; -DDMG. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
PAN	English	Panic	Post & Telecom
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Panic

Synonyms: scare (n), terror (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fear	Fright; affright, affrightment; boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Panic

English words defined with "panic": anxiety attack ♦ barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass ♦ Cooke ♦ Echinochloa crusgalli ♦ genus Panicum, Gould ♦ Jay Cooke, Jay Gould ♦ panic disorder, Panical, Panicum ♦ skedaddle ♦ think. (references)

Specialty definitions using "panic": Astolpho ♦ blockbusting ♦ Fluvoxamine ♦ General Funk ♦ infinite loop ♦ panic-brake ♦ Wolfram syndrome. (references)

Etymologies containing "panic": Panicum. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Panic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Czech (virgin).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Nobody panic, that was deliberate (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) I've been in worse situations than this, and panic does not help, trust me (Speed 2: Cruise Control; writing credit: Graham Yost; Jan de Bont) Let me tell you something about Asians, we never panic. (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) Do not panic, do not panic (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) That was the panic button (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)
Lyrics	Panic is spreading (Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler); performing artist: Marvin Gaye) But don't panic. Base (New Math; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Clever	You, you, and you: panic. The rest of you, come with me. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Panic Room (2002) The Panic in Needle Park (1971) Panic in the City (1968) Pink Panic (1967) Panic (1965)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An End to Panic: Breakthrough Techniques for Overcoming Panic Disorder (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Panic (reference) Panic Room (reference) Panic in the Streets (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Don't Panic! 60 Seconds for Piano (reference) Satanic Panic (reference) True Face of Panic (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Panic Restaurant (reference) Stretch Panic (reference) LOREX SG-8100 Multiview 9-Camera Color Switcher with Security and Panic Alarms (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	AIDS the plague the panic the anguish the answers the solution you. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		A panic in Wall Street. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Suddenly he stopped, then turned about -- screaming in great panic. Credit: Library of Congress.		Don't panic -- these are Lincoln Day speeches! / Gib Crockett, Washington Star. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Japanese fleeing in panic as the earth literally split underfoot during the series of earthquakes which shook Fukui and nearby towns on Honshu Island, June 28, 1948, taking the lives of more than 3,000 persons. Credit: Library of Congress.		Refugees leaving Paris in a panic, June 13, 1940. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The panic - scenes in Wall Street Wednesday morning, May 14 / drawn by Schell and Hogan. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	Terror; alarm; anxiety; consternation; dismay; dread; fearfulness; fright; horror; intimidation; panic; shock; trepidation; trepid; fear; afraid.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Christian Nevell Bovee	Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Sophocles	It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	This panic was such that it reached the Prince of Conde at Malines, and Louis XVIII
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And a little panic started
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A panic attack in and of itself is not an emergency. (references)
		These changes can be frightening and can cause panic. (references)
		There are many other disorders in which panic attacks may occur. (references)
Civil Liberties	Czech Republic	In August authorities brought charges of propagating a movement leading to the suppression of citizens' rights and freedoms, and inciting panic and criminal slander against an outspoken communist activist. (references)
	Burundi	On March 2, the Minister of Communication threatened to prosecute journalists and shut down news organizations that the Government believed were "disseminating false information, divulging defense secrets, promoting the enemy, or promoting panic." The Government remained very sensitive to reporting on the country's internal conflict, and continued to threaten independent radio stations with shutdown if they disseminated reports that contradicted the official line. (references)
Human Rights	Sierra Leone	The gunfire caused panic among civilians outside the prison, who feared a jailbreak was in progress. (references)
Political Economy	UKRAINE	For much of its history, Ukraine has relied upon various measure to support its national currency, the hryvnia, in the face of downward pressures brought about by internal forces such as high inflation and external shocks such as the 1998 financial panic, which resulted in a 23 percent depreciation of the real exchange rate. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	More and more people are building on this panic mentality the Democrats are spreading, but the White House is standing behind their Social Security privatization proposal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Americans did not panic or demand instant but useless cures.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Panic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.85% of the time. "Panic" is used about 1,978 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)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	84.85%	1,678	4,987
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	14.75%	292	17,014
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.35%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	0.05%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,978	N/A

Expressions using "panic": Anxiety and Panic Attacks ♦ be at panic stations over smth. ♦ be seized with panic ♦ couse a panic ♦ get a panic ♦ panic attack ♦ panic bolt ♦ panic buying ♦ panic disorder ♦ panic freeze ♦ panic grass ♦ panic mixer ♦ panic monger ♦ panic price ♦ panic reaction ♦ panic stricken ♦ panic struck ♦ panic terror ♦ push the panic button ♦ seize panic ♦ state of panic. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "panic": panic-attack, panic-brake, panic-buy, panic-buying, panic-driven, panic-induced, panic-merchants, Panic-stricken, Panic-struck.
	Ending with "panic": near-panic.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "panic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		panik (alarm, flap, funk, scare), shkaktoj panik, më kap paniku, lemeri (fright, funk, horror, terror), lebeti (terror), i shkaktuar nga paniku, diçka shumë argëtuese. (various references)

Arabic		‏فزع (appal, appall, be scared, dismay, dread, scare, skittish), ‏مصاب بالسعر, ‏هيام (adoration, ardent love, passion), ‏هلع (awe, phobia, scare, scaring, terror), ‏ذعر مالي, ‏ذعر (alarm, be astonished, consternation, creep, flap, frighten, terror, terrorization, trepidation), ‏خوف (browbeat, bully, dread, fear, fright, frighten, frightfulness, give a scare, horror, put the wind up, scare, terror, trepidation), ‏إنتزع إعجاب الناظرين ب, ‏أرعب (alarm, appal, appall, daunt, dismay, fright, frighten, horrify, intimidate, stagger, terrorize), ‏رعب (awe, consternation, dismay, fright, frightfulness, horror, scare, terror, tizzy, trance). (various references)

Bulgarian		създаващ паника (scare), спешен случай (emergency), хвърлям в паника, комично положение, комичен човек, възбуждам смях, забавлявам (amuse, divert, entertain, lark, regale), за непредвиден случай, панически (panicky), паникьосвам се (flap, funk, have the jitters), паника (bugaboo, flap, funk, scare, tail spin, tizzy, whim-wham), италианско просо, изпадам в паника (lose one's nerve). (various references)

Chinese		恐慌 (panicky, panic-stricken). (various references)

Czech		panika (fuss, scare, stampede), panický strach (terror), panický (virginal), zpanikařit, zdìšení (consternation, dismay, fright, horror, terror), šířit paniku. (various references)

Danish		panik. (various references)

Dutch		paniek. (various references)

Esperanto		paniko. (various references)

Farsi		هراس (Alarm, Feeze, Fright), وحشت زده کردن (Horrify, Terrify), وحشت (Abhorrence, Awe, Dread, Fray, Fright, Horror, Jitters, Terror), اضطراب وترس ناگهانی , دهشت (Horror, Terror), دربیم وهراس انداختن . (various references)

Finnish		paniikki, pakokauhu. (various references)

French		panique. (various references)

Frisian		panyk. (various references)

German		Panik (alarmism, flap). (various references)

Greek		πανικός, πανικοβάλλω. (various references)

Hebrew		לעורר בהלה, לאבד עשתונותיו (be confused, fly off the handle, lose one's head, lose one's wits), תפלצת (horror, terror), פניקה, בעתה (consternation, fear, horror), בהילות (alarm, haste, hurry), בהלה (alarm, dismay, fright, rush, scare, trepidation). (various references)

Hungarian		pánik (abject terror, flurry, scare, stampede), riadalom (alarm, fright), páni (panicky). (various references)

Indonesian		panik, kepanikan (be in a panic), kegegeran (clamor). (various references)

Italian		panico (funk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		恐慌 (consternation, scare). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		パニック , きょうこう (consternation, crime, enforcement, famine, firm, forcing, height of a mirror stand, murder, poor crops, Pope, scare, strong, stubborn, thoracic cavity, thorax, unbending, unyielding, vigorous, violence). (various references)

Korean		공황. (various references)

Manx		sevreainey (zoom), sevreain (zoom), cur sevreain er. (various references)

Norwegian		panikk. (various references)

Pig Latin		anicpay.(various references)

Portuguese		pânico (funk, scare). (various references)

Romanian		panicã (alarm, flap, funk, scare, stampede, terror), teamã (alarm, anxiety, apprehension, awe, dread, fear, fright, nervousness, palpitation, pusillanimity, terror), spaimã subitã, fi cuprins de panicã (get a panic, stampede), dughie, de panicã (panicky), alarmã (alarm, alarum, alert, terror, uneasiness). (various references)

Russian		забава (amusement, fun, sporting), панический (jumpy, panicky), паниковать паника, паника (blue fear, blue funk, funk, scare). (various references)

Scottish		maoim (alarm, consternation, terror), giorag (dread, fear, noise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		panika (clutter), paničan (headlong, panicky). (various references)

Spanish		pánico (scare). (various references)

Swedish		panik (flap, jitters, tailspin), panisk, få panik. (various references)

Turkish		panik (alarmed, panic stricken, panic struck, panicky, stampede, tailspin), paniğe kapılmak (be alarmed, lose one's head), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), komik tip (scream), çok komik şey (scream). (various references)

Turkmen		dowul. (various references)

Ukrainian		викликати захоплення (overjoy), жарт (cantrip, jape, jest, jocosity, joke, play, pleasantry, skit, trick, wheeze, witticism), лякати (affray, affright, appal, appall, consternate, daunt, fray, frighten, intimidate, scare, shy), просянка, панічний (panicky), панікувати, паніка (alarm, scare). (various references)

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

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	Panikos. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	conturbatio, conturbatione, conturbationem, panicum, pavor, pavore, pavorem, pavoris, terror, terrore, terrorem, terrores, terroresque, terroribus, terroris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "panic": panicked, panickier, panickiest, panicking, panicky, panicle, panicled, panicles, panics, paniculate, panicum, panicums. (additional references)
	Words ending with "panic": tympanic. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Panic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anci, anic, ganic, kaunic, nanic, Paicf, Paich, painc, painic, panacom, Panau, Panax, Pandick, Pandim, paneb, panek, pangi, pani, panice, panick, Panico, Panicum, panicy, panir, panis, panit, panni, pannic, pannick, pannik, pannir, panoc, panyi, panzi, paric, Pasik, patic, pavic, paynim, Pendik, penic, penice, pennic, peonic, phanic, pianic, Pilic, pinich, pinih, pinnic, Pinnick, pionic, pipic, pjanic, Plagnac, planci, Pondick, ponic, pontic, ponzi, pranic, punnic, Pwani, Vanick, yanic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "panic" (pronounced pa"nik)
5	p a" n i k	tympanic.
4	-a" n i k	botanic, galvanic, germanic, inorganic, manic, mechanic, messianic, oceanic, organic, satanic, Titanic, transoceanic, volcanic.
3	-n i k	allophonic, arsenic, avionic, beatnik, bubonic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, eugenic, ganglionic, gnomonic, hallucinogenic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, masonic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, neotenic, nucleonic, orogenic, ovonic, pathogenic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, photogenic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, scenic, schizophrenic, sonic, splenic, Sputnik, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telegenic, telephonic, tonic, transgenic, tunic, ultrasonic.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-p"
	-1 letter: cain, nipa, pain, pian, pica, pina.
	-2 letters: ain, ani, can, cap, nap, nip, pac, pan, pia, pic, pin.
	-3 letters: ai, an, in, na, pa, pi.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-p"
	+1 letter: apneic, caplin, catnip, pacing, painch, panics, pianic.
	+2 letters: acapnia, aphonic, apnoeic, camping, campion, cantrip, capelin, caplins, capping, caprine, captain, caption, carping, catnips, craping, cyprian, inclasp, inscape, packing, paction, panicky, panicle, panicum, peacing, pelican, pemican, picante, pinnace, piscina, placing, pliancy, puranic, scaping, spacing, spinach.
	+3 letters: acapnias, antipyic, aphonics, apocrine, backspin, campaign, camphine, campings, campions, canopied, canopies, cantraip, cantrips, capelins, capering, capeskin, caponier, caponize, cappings, capsicin, captains, captions, capuchin, carpings, cephalin, champing, champion, chaplain, chapping, clamping, clapping, clasping, coapting, complain, cramping, crankpin, crapping, cyprians, escaping, handicap, handpick, haptenic, inclasps, inscapes, japonica, manciple, minicamp, nightcap, optician, pachinko, packings, pactions, painches, pandemic, panicked, panicled, panicles, panicums, panoptic, paranoic, parching, parsonic, patching, patience, peacenik, peaching, pedantic, pelicans, pemicans, pemmican, picaroon, picayune, pinnaces, pinnacle, piquance, piquancy, piscinae, piscinal, piscinas, pitchman, pittance, platinic, platonic, poaching, prancing, procaine, prochain, publican, pycnidia, sapience, sapiency, scalping, scamping, scarfpin, scarping, scraping, spacings, spinachy, spondaic, synaptic, tympanic.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
panic attack	1,721	panic alarm	30
widespread panic	1,271	widespread panic setlists	29
panic disorder	594	panic button	29
full metal panic	383	don panic t	28
panic	274	panic attack treatment	28
panic room	254	font panic	28
panic attack symptom	144	panic rooms	27
ezboard panic widespread	116	guitar panic tab widespread	24
manic panic	111	panic disorder medication	24
panic ware	109	dont panic	23
lyrics panic widespread	103	panic hardware	22
anxiety and panic attack	80	panic disorder symptom	22
anxiety and panic	54	full metal panic picture	21
gals panic	51	manic panic hair dye	20
panic anxiety disorder	50	1837 panic	19
full metal panic wallpaper	44	kernel panic	19
medication panic attack	43	cause of panic attack	19
widespread panic ticket	41	full metal mp3 panic	19
panic tab widespread	40	panic in needle park	17
panic disorder treatment	33	panic attack disorder	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Panic

Definition: Panic

Panic

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Panic

Specialty Definition: Panic

Panic (movie)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Panic

Synonyms: Panic

Synonyms within Context: Panic

Fear

Crosswords: Panic

Modern Usage: Panic

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Panic

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Panic

Illustrations:Panic

Computer Images:Panic

Photo Album: Panic

Digital Photo Gallery: Panic

Sounds Captioned with "Panic".

Familiar Quotations: Panic

Christian Nevell Bovee

Sophocles

Use in Literature: Panic

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Panic

Spoken Usage: Panic

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Panic

Gerald Ford

Usage Frequency: Panic

Expression: Panic

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Panic

Modern Translation: Panic

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