Crossword clues for frenzy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frenzy \Fren"zy\ (fr[e^]n"z[y^]), n.; pl. Frenzies (fr[e^]n"z[i^]z). [OE. frenesie, fransey, F. fr['e]n['e]sie, L. phrenesis, fr. Gr. fre`nhsis for freni^tis disease of the mind, phrenitis, fr. frhn mind. Cf. Frantic, Phrenitis.] Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.
All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
--Addison.
The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.
--Shak.
Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; alienation; aberration; delirium. See Insanity.
Frenzy \Fren"zy\, a. Mad; frantic. [R.]
They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into
his head.
--Bunyan.
Frenzy \Fren"zy\, v. t.
To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness [R.] ``Frenzying
anguish.''
--Southey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "delirium, insanity," from Old French frenesie "frenzy, madness" (13c.), from Medieval Latin phrenesia, from phrenesis, back-formation from Latin phreneticus "delirious" (see frenetic). Meaning "excited state of mind" is from c.1400.
1795, from frenzy (n.). Related: Frenzied; frenzying.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) mad; frantic. n. 1 A state of wild activity or panic. 2 A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage. v
1 (context uncommon English) To render franti
2 (context rare English) To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Frenzy is a 1979 album by New Zealand new wave band Split Enz. The album, like much of the band's work, featured mainly Tim Finn compositions. Frenzy ventured even further beyond the band's art rock roots to more of a pop sound.
The album is notable for being the first to feature Neil Finn on lead vocals – though the lyrics to "Give It a Whirl" and both music & lyrics to "Master Plan" were written by his brother Tim.
Frenzy was an arcade game published by Stern Electronics in 1982. It was a sequel to the hit 1980 arcade game Berzerk.
Frenzy is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Wired magazine once nominated him as one of the 12 most ridiculous Transformers of all time.
Frenzy is a 1972 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Frenzy may also refer to:
- Rage (emotion), a feeling of intense anger
Frenzy is an 8-bit computer game published in the UK by Micro Power in 1984. It is a version of the arcade game Qix. The game was released for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro in 1984 and for the Commodore 64 in 1985.
Frenzy was the fourth album by the group High Inergy. It was released on Motown's Gordy Label.
Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller- psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The second to last feature film of his extensive career, it is often considered by critics and scholars to be his last great film before his death. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.
The plot centres on a serial killer in contemporary London. In a very early scene there is dialogue that mentions two actual London serial murder cases: the Christie murders in the early 1950s, and the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888. Barry Foster has said that the real life inspiration for his character was Neville Heath, an English serial killer who would often pass himself of as an officer in the RAF.
Frenzy was the third film Hitchcock made in Britain after he moved to Hollywood in 1939. The other two were Under Capricorn in 1949 and Stage Fright in 1950 (although there were some interior and exterior scenes filmed in London for the 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much). The last film he made in Britain before his move to America was Jamaica Inn (1939). The film was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.
Frenzy is an album released by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper in 1986. It was re-released on CD in 2005 with the entire contents of the mini-album Get Out Of My Way! added to the end. The CD uses the Get Out of My Way! mix of "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin", which filters the telephone conversation part of Nixon's opening monologue to sound like he is talking on the phone, instead of the original Frenzy LP mix. "Transylvanian Xmas" is a version of " Joy to the World", performed by Roper on harmonica with the melody tweaked to sound spooky with Nixon on bongos. "Jesus at McDonalds" is a newer recording of the song from their first LP, Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper.
Frenzy is a 2015 Turkish drama film directed by Emin Alper. It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.
It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Usage examples of "frenzy".
Finning itself into a frenzy, the afanc began swimming in circles above the group.
What you call affectless irony is for me a fabulous adventure, a rush of sexual excitement: a frenzied yet precise exploration of the unimagined depths of cyberspace, and of the expanded dimensions of my skin.
Schools of tiny mullet and squid skipped this way and that in frenzied fear, snapped at by the fierce albacore below and the eager beaks of the birds.
The birds withdrew in frenzied flight, probably alighting somewhere beyond, since they were no longer on the wing.
When I was awake I found that the happy dream of the night had turned my love for the lovely creature into a perfect amorous frenzy, and it could not be other wise.
After the first ecstacy was over, I proceeded to examine her beauties, and with my usual amorous frenzy told her that she should send her tailor out to graze and live with me.
The massive amphibian whipped its head back and forth in an instinctual frenzy to rip and tear.
We have seen that the uncertainty principle ensures that even the vacuum of empty space is a teeming, roiling frenzy of virtual particles momentarily erupting into existence and subsequently annihilating one another.
When you touch me, I become a woman possessed, and my frenzy is not appeased until we come together as one.
He was an Argon, that much she knew from the frenzied whisperings and gawking of the tavern wenches around her.
The frenzied animal continued its attack, sequentially shredding and avulsing all four extremities of the almost headless torso.
At the words and movement the hawk bated again, more fiercely than before, and Romilly gasped, struggling to keep her sense of self against the fury of thrashing wings, the hunger, the blood-lust, the frenzy to break free, fly free, dash itself to death against the dark enclosing beams .
The hawk bated again in its frenzy and Romilly stepped closer, crooning, murmuring calm.
But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Suddenly, the front door blew open with a bang, sending the bells into a brief cacophonous frenzy.