Usually means: Overwhelmed by sudden, intense fear.
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  1. panic-stricken: Merriam-Webster
  2. panic-stricken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. panic-stricken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. panic-stricken, panic-stricken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. panic-stricken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Panic-stricken, panic-stricken: Wordnik
  7. panic-stricken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. panic-stricken: Wiktionary
  9. panic-stricken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. panic-stricken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. panic-stricken: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Panic-stricken, panic-stricken: Dictionary.com
  13. panic-stricken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Panic-stricken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. panic-stricken: Rhymezone
  16. Panic-stricken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. panic-stricken: FreeDictionary.org
  18. panic-stricken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. panic-stricken: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Very frightened, and unable to react sensibly because of panic.

Similar:
panicked, afraid, terrified, frightened, panic-struck, alarmed, subpanicled, frantic, flustered, horror-struck, more...

Types:
frantic, terrified, petrified, scared, spooked, panicked, more...

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Similar:
panicked, afraid, terrified, frightened, panic-struck, alarmed, subpanicled, frantic, flustered, horror-struck, more...

Types:
frantic, terrified, petrified, scared, spooked, panicked, more...



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