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frenzied

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adjective

wildly excited or enthusiastic: frenzied applause.

violently agitated; frantic; wild: a frenzied mob.

Also, phrensied.

Origin:
1790–1800; frenzy + -ed³

Related forms

fren·zied·ly, adverb

un·fren·zied, adjective

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Example Sentences

Anderson is pressing new cases at an almost frenzied pace.

What saves me is the side of me that is suppressed during the frenzied social activity of the semester.

The nominee's career has been marked by frenzied networking and few publicly expressed opinions.

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Anderson is pressing new cases at an almost frenzied pace.

What saves me is the side of me that is suppressed during the frenzied social activity of the semester.

The nominee's career has been marked by frenzied networking and few publicly expressed opinions.

Expect entertainingly brusque service, bright lights, and a frenzied atmosphere.

Though frenzied seabed mapping clarifies the geology, economic incentives cloud the discussion.

But the show is frenzied and nowhere near as educational and interesting as the rest of the show.

The aim of all his frenzied activity is to stimulate debate rather than boost his political chances.

We agreed, paid a fee and began shooting what proved to be a frenzied event.

The aim was to find a revealing brain activity that many people shared-a needle in a haystack of frenzied signals.

Puzzles that keep the game and you moving in between the frenzied action.

After a decade or so of frenzied development, the region's once-dowdy urban landscapes have changed beyond recognition.

Each sighting winds up being only a glimpse of my own foot or a trail of bubbles left by my frenzied kicking.

The tightly packed and stylized cells give the storyline a frenzied and claustrophobic feel.

For the past few months, this debate has become frenzied but incoherent.

Forget fast-action thrills and spills, hairy head-to-head battles, and frenzied chases that make your head spin.

Frenzied sysadmins are sure to make catastrophic mistakes.

Combine such evidence of frenzied activity with mysterious secretiveness, and the imagination is liberated.

It is not a frenzied bark, its more a scared bark, every minute or so until i return.

The press says some petrol stations have raised prices beyond state-mandated limits to take advantage of frenzied demand.

But this month marks, in effect, their frenzied launch.

Frenzied talks are already underway to agree a deal that would allow the two parties to merge for the second round.

Law firms penned frenzied warnings to their clients.

But behind the scenes the activity has been frenzied.

The frenzied debate that surrounded the drafting of the government's new measures has also revealed pitfalls ahead.

Frenzied crowds pack sales events with bags of cash, buying units that exist only on blueprints.

It is not easy to maintian law and order when a group of policemen are surrounded by frenzied stone throwing mobs.

Though frenzied seabed mapping clarifies the geology, economic.

Many of those built during the first frenzied decades of the logging boom were simply abandoned.

Those frenzied late-night television come-ons for deals on unclaimed cars send a twinge of.

Joel seemed oblivious to the frenzied activity behind him.

Insummer the dock area can be frenzied with tourists, yet the.

It was frenzied as adults and children ran, jumped and grabbed in an attempt to win one of the invading figures.

At a frenzied fair, condos and cosmetics are also hawked.

Normally everyone's energy and nerves are spent on the first day in the field in the frenzied logistics of setting up camp.

Mental health experts are exploring the upside of frenzied emotional heights.

Prepare yourself for the frenzied selections that occur once you're in the moment.

They are whipped up into a frenzied dance in which normal inhibitions are broken down and anything goes.

Instead, their suggestions initiated several weeks of frenzied home improvements.

Now she found herself at the center of a frenzied national bioterror investigation.

But following reports of wide-scale looting and frenzied anti-Chinese violence last.

And the frenzied standing-O it always gets from his audience is something to see.

The frenzied race to coastal headquarters includes some tingling collisions with the enemy.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.

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)

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

Related forms

fren·zi·ly, adverb

Synonyms
2. madness, insanity, lunacy, aberration; rage, fury, raving.

Antonyms
1. calm. 2. sanity.

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World English Dictionary

frenzied (ˈfrɛnzɪd)

—*adj*
	filled with or as if with frenzy; wild; frantic

frenziedly

—*adv*

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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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