panic
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panic
noun affright, agitation, alarm, anxiety, awe, confusedness, confusion, consternation, cowardice, discomposure, disorder, disquietude, disturbance, dread, fear, fearfulness, flutter, frenzy, fright, great fear, horror, hysteria, hystericalness, inquietude, irrational terror, nervousness, outcry, overpowering fright, pandemonium, pavor, perturbance, perturbation, phobia, sheer terror, stampede, state of terror, sudden fear, terror, trepidation, turmoil, unreasoning fearAssociated concepts: heat of passion, manslaughter, temmorary insanity
See also: fear, fright, frighten, pandemonium, phobia, trepidation