An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

Usage examples of panic.

He had looked out at the quizzical faces, listened to the frantic scrawling of the panicking students, and realized that with a mind that ran and tripped and hurled itself down the corridors of theory in anarchic fashion, he could learn himself, in haphazard lurches, but he could not impart the understanding he so loved.

Three times the height of a man, the baluchitherium rose in panic and pain.

For just an instant, in profile, Barin saw a flicker that might have been panic, but her calm returned.

She knew a moment of panic standing there, realizing she had not thought of how she might bring the beastie down, but thought that as she had come this far, she would simply have to figure that out when the time came.

There was no reason why he should associate three nondescript, bedraggled travelers with a notorious case of murderand yet I had felt panic well up under my diaphragm when he glanced at me.

Men trying to fight back could not hang on or even get in a good blow, but it was the betrayal of their mounts that panicked them most.

Adam wondered if Billie saw how her mouth quivered at the corner and the panic in her eyes.

That warning had blunted, however slightly, the surge of panic which even the most experienced armsmen must feel under totally unexpected attack.

Your puissant knights did hurtle to the attack, did brast their spears on the oafish defenders who didst flee in panic, did thus free the prisoners.

And while Bee sat and stared at the Ashby tablets in the church at Clare, Brat Farrar was standing in the back room in Pimlico in a brand-new suit and a state of panic.

The boy froze, sweat bursting on his forehead, his neck bristling with panic.

The eyes of every viewer panicked by retrovirus homophobic hysteria would be glued to the set, ready to see if the Democrats would endorse the pollution of their bodily fluids by lurking sodomites and junkies drooling contamination from every orifice.

Flame tongues licked the panicked face of an autist near Danlo, and passed to a horologe, whose red robe was suddenly a shroud of fire burning around him.

Since she did not plan to panic and hyperventilate, she was sure she could swim to the beach.

Hyperventilation: anxiety causes some people to hyperventilate, which, in turn, leads perhaps to too much carbon dioxide, dizziness and panic.