Panicking

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A state of panic. countable, uncountable

    "We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of panic form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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pandeanpanicalabject fearaffrightaffrightagitation

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"Panicking will certainly not help."

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