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Meaning of panic
noun
- Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
- Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
- A kernel panic or system crash.
verb
- To feel overwhelming fear.
- To cause somebody to panic.
- (by extension) To crash.
- (by extension) To cause the system to crash.
adjective
- Pertaining to the god Pan.
- Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
noun
- A plant of the genus Panicum.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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