frenzied
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zid adjective
1.
wildly excited or enthusiastic: frenzied applause.
2.
violently agitated; frantic; wild: a frenzied mob.
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noun
1.
extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
2.
a fit or spell of violent mental excitement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania: He is subject to these frenzies several times a year.
verb (used with object)
3.
to drive to frenzy; make frantic: She was frenzied by fear when she smelled the smoke.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English frenesie < Old French < Late Latin phrenēsis < Late Greek, for Greek phrenîtis; see phrenitis
1300–50; Middle English frenesie < Old French < Late Latin phrenēsis < Late Greek, for Greek phrenîtis; see phrenitis
Related forms
fren·zi·ly, adverb
Synonyms
2. madness, insanity, lunacy, aberration; rage, fury, raving.
2. madness, insanity, lunacy, aberration; rage, fury, raving.
Antonyms
1. calm. 2. sanity.
1. calm. 2. sanity.
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| —adj | |
| filled with or as if with frenzy; wild; frantic | |
| frenziedly | |
| —adv | |
| frenzy (ˈfrɛnzɪ) | |
| —n , pl -zies | |
| 1. | violent mental derangement |
| 2. | wild excitement or agitation; distraction |
| 3. | a bout of wild or agitated activity: a frenzy of preparations |
| —vb , -zies, -zies, -zying, -zied | |
| 4. | (tr) to make frantic; drive into a frenzy |
| [C14: from Old French frenesie, from Late Latin phrēnēsis madness, delirium, from Late Greek, ultimately from Greek phrēn mind; compare | |
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Word Origin & History
frenzy
mid-14c., from O.Fr. frenesie, from M.L. phrenesia, from phrenesis, back formation from L. phreneticus "delirious" (see frenetic). Related: Frenzied.
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Example sentences
What saves me is the side of me that is suppressed during the frenzied social activity of the semester.
Law firms penned frenzied warnings to their clients.
Puzzles that keep the game and you moving in between the frenzied action.
Combine such evidence of frenzied activity with mysterious secretiveness, and the imagination is liberated.
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