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frenzied

[ fren-zeed ]

adjective

  1. wildly excited or enthusiastic:

    frenzied applause.

  2. violently agitated; frantic; wild:

    a frenzied mob.



ˈfrenzied

/ ˈfrɛnzɪd /

adjective

  1. filled with or as if with frenzy; wild; frantic


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Derived Forms

  • ˈfrenziedly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • frenzied·ly adverb
  • un·frenzied adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of frenzied1

First recorded in 1790–1800; frenzy + -ed 3

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Example Sentences

There was frenzied uproar when she participated in a literacy program to encourage kids to read.

The lack of legal clarity is only one piece of an already frenzied and shifting operating environment.

There were many tears, and a frenzied air it will be hard, and weird, to maintain.

As shadows fall and flesh goads, we all but hear the frenzied rutting amid the sirens.

For the remaining Republicans, the end of the primary will merely be the beginning of a frenzied sprint to the runoff.

Indeed, a score of bodies lying there had not been seen by Malcolm during his first frenzied examination of the house.

There is no question as to the ecstatic, nay frenzied state many of them attained.

Frenzied beating of the typewriting machines, and overhead and far away the band.

What other passion than frenzied pride can render men so ferocious, so vindictive, so devoid of toleration and gentleness?

The Indians, and especially the Apaches, have a frenzied passion for strong liquors; the Comanches alone are teetotallers.

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