panicstricken

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A form of panic-stricken — Very frightened, and unable to react sensibly because of panic.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivepanicstricken (comparative more panicstricken, superlative most panicstricken)

comparative more panicstricken · superlative most panicstricken

  1. alternativeAlternative form of panic-stricken.

    In the clouded haze men became panicstricken with the thought that the regiment had lost its path, and was proceeding in a perilous direction.

    1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XX, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 193
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