Crossword clues for panic-stricken
panic-stricken
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Panic-stricken \Pan"ic-strick`en\, Panic-struck
\Pan"ic-struck`\, a.
Struck with a panic, or sudden fear; thrown into a state of
intense fear; as, trying to keep back the panic-stricken
crowd.
--Burke.
Syn: panicky, petrified, terrified, frightened.
Wiktionary
a. Very frightened, and unable to react sensibly because of panic.
WordNet
adj. thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" [syn: panicky, panicked, panic-struck, terrified, frightened]
Usage examples of "panic-stricken".
The Aleut Indian hunters, who had become panic-stricken, gradually regained sufficient courage again to follow the Russians eastward.
Staring at the oncoming mass, unable to pull her eyes away from the destruction of Kaera, Cailin saw her mother and father running toward her, panic-stricken like the others.
There was not even a garrison to defend Calicut, and one had to be improvised when the first horde of wounded and panic-stricken Hindus came stampeding for protection.
The Whistlers, two generations removed from the cribs, looked panic-stricken.
Yagharek stopped, thinking of that panic-stricken scene on the top of the cactacae sun-temple, of the helmetless cactus elders, the brave, idiot soldiers charging up, lucky enough to have missed the moths, saving themselves from pointless death.
When the white puffs cleared from before their eyes they saw four prostrate figures, with the others skurrying panic-stricken in a huddled mass westward, with the prisoners left alone bound to the tree.
Now Twana had released one of the druns and prodded it into a panic-stricken flight.
Lucius Decumius heard that the present consuls, Lucius Caesar and Marcius Figulus, proposed to legislate the crossroads colleges out of existence, he was thrown into a panic-stricken rage and horror, and ran immediately to see his patron, Caesar.
Crouching, panic-stricken, in the brush, he watched, in a dazed and dreamlike fashion, the snogs murder his parents.
She turned aside in avoidance of this, only to plunge into the purlieus of Chinatown, whence only she emerged, panic-stricken and out of breath, after a half hour of never-to-be-forgotten terrors, and at a time when it had grown quite dark.
Some of the panic-stricken soldiers were still trying to hack their way through the abatis but most were attempting to retreat back up the pass, pushing at those blocking them and trampling those beneath, adding to the crushing pressure on the infantry facing Springbuck and Hightower.
The Time Machine, which revealed that the horrible, cannibalistic Morlocks had in fact been benevolent scientists trying to communicate with the panic-stricken and homicidal time-traveler.
Wells's late-nineteenth-century classic The Time Machine, which revealed that the horrible, cannibalistic Morlocks had in fact been benevolent scientists trying to communicate with the panic-stricken and homicidal time-traveler.
Following him, the slave centuries entered the forest, out of formation, obeying no command, hunting, each man for himself like a hungry pack of wolves harrying the fleeing deer, chasing the panic-stricken antlered man-herd.
The cries emanating from the listening device grew shrill and panic-stricken and then Saryon heard no more, for suddenly kit world burst into flame around him.