PANICKING Synonyms

• experiencing a sudden sense of danger

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• generalized feeling of distress

• facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

• suffering severe physical strain or distress

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

• experiencing or showing fear

• causing fear or dread or terror

• extremely distressing

• timid by nature or revealing timidity

• thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)

• excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

• marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

• made afraid

• thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation

• stricken with horror

• characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

• marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion

• of or relating to the nervous system

• easily agitated

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• excited in anticipation

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• deeply agitated especially from emotion

• thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)

• made afraid

• bearing a stress or accent

• suffering severe physical strain or distress

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation

• lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort

• still in doubt

• not settled or established

• subject to change

• not yet settled

• an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

• cause fear in