to panic

Definition of to panic in English English dictionary: To feel overwhelming fear; Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan)
All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.; Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; Pertaining to the god Pan; Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices; a sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear; consternation; {a} violent without due cause, groundless; {n} violent fright without a just cause; What a mother goes thru when the darn wind-up swing stops; be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"; What a mother goes through when the darn wind-up swing stops; be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away; An unrecoverable system failure explicitly triggered by the kernel with a call to panic See also kernel crash; 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"; Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; - - said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm; a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic; Panic is a very strong feeling of anxiety or fear, which makes you act without thinking carefully. An earthquake hit the capital, causing panic among the population I phoned the doctor in a panic, crying that I'd lost the baby; By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs; is acute and extreme anxiety with accompanying physiologic symptoms; Financial and economic crisis, marked by public loss of confidence in the financial structure characterized by runs on banks and a rapid fall of the securities market, bank failures and bankruptcies See Depression (Economic); cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"; The state where an unrecoverable error has occurred Usually, when a panic occurs, a message is displayed on the console to indicate the cause of the problem; an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety; Acute, intense attack of anxiety associated with personality disorganization; the anxiety is overwhelming and accompanied by feelings of impending doom; If you panic or if someone panics you, you suddenly feel anxious or afraid, and act quickly and without thinking carefully. Guests panicked and screamed when the bomb exploded The unexpected and sudden memory briefly panicked her She refused to be panicked into a hasty marriage. panicked panicking to suddenly feel so frightened that you cannot think clearly or behave sensibly, or to make someone do this. In economics, a severe financial disturbance, such as widespread bank failures, feverish stock speculation followed by a market crash, or a climate of fear caused by economic crisis or anticipation of such a crisis. The term is applied only to the initial, violent stage of financial upheaval rather than the whole decline in the business cycle (see depression and recession). Until the 19th century, economic fluctuations were largely connected with shortages of goods, market expansion, and speculation (as in the South Sea Bubble). Panics in the industrialized societies of the 19th-20th centuries have reflected the increasing complexity of advanced economies. The Panic of 1857 in the U.S. had its seeds in the railroads' defaulting on their bonds and in the decline in the value of railroad securities; its effects were complex, including not only the closing of many banks but also severe unemployment in the U.S. and a money-market panic in Europe. The Panic of 1873, which began with financial crises in Vienna and New York, marked the start of a long-term contraction in the world economy. The most infamous panic began with the U.S. stock-market crash of 1929 (see Great Depression); Son of Ares Brother of Eris (Discord), Trembling, Phobos (Alarm), Metus (Fear), Demios (Dread), and Pallor; Overpowering fright; Narcotics shortage in a given city or district due to arrests or interception of a shipment; UNIX jargon for a "crash " A panic is really a special kind of a crash Panics occur when UNIX detects some irreconcilable inconsistency in one of its internal data structures The kernel throws up its hands and shuts the system down before any damage can be done As it is going down, it prints a "panic" message on the console; A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass; A run time exception; {i} sense of extreme fright; attack of fear, episode of fright; alarm, dismay, scare; sudden extensive fright regarding financial affairs resulting in hasty selling and a sharp fall in prices; (Slang) very funny person; funny thing; Type of alarm that is activated by a special button or pendant due to an emergency such as a hold-up The signal is sent to the monitoring station who can then notify the proper authorities; In psychiatry, an attack of acute, intense, and overwhelming anxiety accompanied by a considerable degree of personality disorganization; A Computer term for a condition when the system becomes inoperable due to an abnormal condition detected by the kernel The system reboots on it's own Panics create dumps; Panic refers specifically to a UI check that must be made by units which are in close proximity to a friendly unit that routs; {f} be overcome with extreme fright, be stricken with panic, be alarmed; make a person feel panic; {s} pertaining to panic; resulting from possible panic; caused by unexpected overpowering fear; Panic or a panic is a situation in which people are affected by a strong feeling of anxiety. There was a moment of panic in Britain as it became clear just how vulnerable the nation was I'm in a panic about getting everything done in time The policy announcement caused panic buying of petrol; A sudden, overpowering fright; esp; The name given to the feature of a security system that provides the ability for the operator to cause the system's siren to sound at will The panic feature is typically initiated either by pressing a button or buttons on the remote control transmitteror by keypad command or by push-button or toggle switch 2; Panic is programmer slang for a system or computer crash, or for the fatal error that causes the crash It may also become slang for the attitude of day-traders working with dot-com options; an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety 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"

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tı pänîk

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/tə ˈpanək/ /tə ˈpænɪk/

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