Usually means: Sudden, overwhelming fear causing irrationality.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word panic:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. panic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. panic: Merriam-Webster
  3. panic, panic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. panic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. panic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. panic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Panic, panic: Wordnik
  8. panic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Panic, panic: Wiktionary
  10. panic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. panic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. panic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. panic: Dictionary.com
  14. panic (1), panic (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. panic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Panic (Alexei Sayle album), Panic (Birtwistle), Panic (Caravan Palace album), Panic (MxPx album), Panic (Sublime with Rome song), Panic (The Smiths song), Panic (comic), Panic (comics), Panic (company), Panic (disambiguation), Panic (film), Panic (song), Panic, Panic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Panic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. panic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. panic: Rhymezone
  20. panic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. panic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. panic: FreeDictionary.org
  23. panic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. panic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Panic: World Wide Words
  26. Panic: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. panic: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. panic: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. panic: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. panic: CCI Computer
  3. panic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. panic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Panic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. panic: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. panic: Medical dictionary
  8. Panic: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. PANIC: Acronym Finder
  4. panic: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. panic, panic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Panic: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. panic, panic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See panicing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (by extension (see the etymology))
adjective:  Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
adjective:  Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
noun:  (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
noun:  (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
noun:  (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
verb:  (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
verb:  (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
verb:  (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
noun:  (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
noun:  (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
noun:  The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
adjective:  (Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)
adjective:  (Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”) [(Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)]
noun:  (countable, computing) Short for kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash. [(computing) On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error.]

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