Usually means: Sudden, overwhelming fear causing irrationality.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. panics: Merriam-Webster
  2. panics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. panics: Collins English Dictionary
  4. panics: Vocabulary.com
  5. Panic's, Panics, panic's, panics: Wordnik
  6. panics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. panics: Wiktionary
  8. panics: Dictionary.com
  9. panics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. The Panics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. panics: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. panics: Legal dictionary

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  1. panics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. panics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. panics: Medical dictionary

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  1. PANICS: Acronym Finder
  2. panics: Idioms

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  1. P.A.N.I.C.S, the panics: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (panic)

adjective:  (by extension (see the etymology))
adjective:  Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
adjective:  Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
noun:  (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
noun:  (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
noun:  (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
verb:  (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
verb:  (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
verb:  (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
noun:  (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
noun:  (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
noun:  The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
adjective:  (Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)
adjective:  (Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”) [(Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)]
noun:  (countable, computing) Short for kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash. [(computing) On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error.]
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