Frenzy
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English
Noun
Frenzy (plural frenzies)- A state of wild activity or panic.
- She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.
Adjectives for Frenzy
astonishing; fanatical; violent; selfish; poetic; complete; pathetic; maddening; full; jealous; dread; untimely; dreadful; inexpressible.
Verbs for Frenzy
anticipate—; attack in—; dart with—; drive to—; fall into—; fight with—; imbue with—; incur—of; indulge in—; inflame to—; infuriate to—; inspire—; lash into—; plunge into—; provoke—; roll in—; salve—; seize with—; shake with—; shriek in—; strike with—; subject to—; throw into—, unloose—; —alarms; —descends; —disturbs; —seizes.
Synonyms for Frenzy
rage, fury, derangement, mania, transport, aberration, madness, agitation, wildness, excitement, delirium.
Antonyms for Frenzy
delight, rapture, ecstasy, calmness, sanity.
Related terms
Thesaurus
Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abandon, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, agitation, akinetic epilepsy, amok, annoy, apoplexy, arouse, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy, awake, awaken, befuddlement, bewilderment, blockage, blow the coals, blow up, bluster, bother, botheration, bout, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacophony, call forth, call up, cardiac epilepsy, chaos, clonic spasm, clonus, cloud, commotion, confusion, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, cramp, craze, cursive epilepsy, daze, delirium, dement, derange, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, distract, distraction, disturbance, diurnal epilepsy, drive insane, drive mad, ebullition, eclampsia, ecstasy, embarrassment, embroilment, enkindle, enrage, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, excite, excitement, falling sickness, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, fanaticism, feed the fire, ferment, fever, fire, fire and fury, fit, flame, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, focal epilepsy, fog, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, grand mal, haute mal, haze, heat, hubbub, hysteria, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, impassion, incense, incite, infatuation, inflame, infuriate, intoxication, jumble, key up, kindle, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, lash into fury, latent epilepsy, lather up, light the fuse, light up, lockjaw, mad, madden, madness, make mad, mania, matutinal epilepsy, maze, menstrual epilepsy, mess, mist, move, muddle, muddlement, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, orgy, outburst, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overexcite, overzealousness, pandemonium, paroxysm, passion, perplexity, perturbation, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pother, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, pucker, racket, rage, rapture, ravishment, reflex epilepsy, rotatoria, rouse, row, ruckus, ruffle, rumpus, seizure, send mad, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, shatter, shuffle, spasm, steam up, stew, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stoppage, storminess, stroke, summon up, sweat, swivet, tardy epilepsy, tearing passion, tempestuousness, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tizzy, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, towering rage, transport, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, turn on, ucinate epilepsy, unbalance, unhinge, unsettlement, uproar, upset, visitation, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whip up, wildness, work into, work up, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness
Etymology
From Middle English < Old French < Latin phrenesis < Ancient Greek *φρένησις, a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (“inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic.
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External links
- Frenzy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Frenzy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Frenzy at OneLook Dictionary Search
