Crossword clues for frenzied
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frenzied \Fren"zied\ (fr[e^]n"z[i^]d), p. p. & a. Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied*ly, adv.
The people frenzied by centuries of oppression.
--Buckle.
Up starting with a frenzied look.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, past participle adjective from frenzy (v.). Related: Frenziedly.
Wiktionary
a. In a state of hurry, panic or wild activity. alt. In a state of hurry, panic or wild activity.
WordNet
See frenzy
adj. affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity" [syn: manic]
excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye" [syn: frantic, frenetic, phrenetic]
Usage examples of "frenzied".
However, the frenzied fighting of his horse to be free and away prevented the creature from a true strike and a backswing of sword sent it spinning to smash against one of the poles from which dropped an empty web.
He had a sense of something like tranquillity, contrasting with the frenzied modernity of Ulan Bator with its cosmopolitan influx of strangers.
The enemy beams shot back upon themselves and rebounded in all directions, in the same spectacular exhibition of frenzied incandescence which had marked the resistance of the Titanian sphere to a similar attack.
One glance told him that it was filled with the lowest scum of the Chilian mob, frenzied with debauchery and incendiarism.
The pig reared back on its hind legs, screaming, as he approached, but began gobbling the corn as soon as the boy moved back toward the corncrib, its eyes frenzied and wide.
Felix observed a dozen cyberneticians engaged in a frenzied dance at the hatchway.
Then she knew that the drumlike booming was the frenzied pounding of her own heart.
Still, the blazing fireflowers brought ecstasy to the Point and Counterpoint, causing them to shift into their own frenzied syncopation.
The gate was slammed with frenzied haste, and sailors began to climb to the footwalk to join the men-at-arms already there.
For three days and nights the riverain forest jangled with the festal sounds of kettledrums, wood clappers, harps and flutes and frenzied laughter.
I came up behind her to see one of the skinny red bunnymen energetically mounting Hoolihan and pumping away at the libbit like a frenzied little sex fiend.
When the bus escaped to Birmingham and pulled into the terminal, a frenzied mob of Ku Klux Klansmen ambushed and beat the Freedom Riders with lead pipes, injuring reporters and bystanders as well.
The frenzied festivities of Mardi Gras complemented her high-strung gaiety.
I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working, Warsaw-based autoradiographer, Margaret Kossut, and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest, Andras Csillag, who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes.
Lockhart proved the latter to his own satisfaction and the frenzied distraction of the Club Secretary by driving the thing at high speed across all eighteen holes of the Pursley Golf Course before plunging through the hedge at the end of Sandicott Crescent and into the garage.