frenzy

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  1. noun A state of violent mental agitation or wild excitement.
  2. noun Temporary madness or delirium.
  3. noun A mania; a craze.
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  • But what was really creating a frenzy was the fact that they were both wearing the same micromini black-widow outfit and veil. —  Step on a Crack by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
  • Ready to break into a kind of frenzy, a berserk frenzy, running amok in wild generosity, or still more wild smashing up. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. —  Neocon Express
  • Many individuals have caught onto the ebook frenzy which is going on these days. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • By 1970, after just a little curtailment of the money inflation, the stock market had collapsed, conglomerates and new issues and hot stocks were a thing of the past, and all the legions that had been caught up in the frenzy were a sick lot indeed. —  Mises Dailies
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  1. Middle English frenesie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin phrenēsia, from Latin phrenēsis, back-formation from phrenēticus, delirious; see frenetic.

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  1. Early modern English also frenzie, frensy, phrensy, phrenzy, franzy, etc., from Middle English frensy, fransy, fransey, frenesy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, frenaisie, F. frénésie = Provencal frenezia, frenezi = Spanish frenesì = Portuguese frenesi = Italian frenesia, from Latin phrenesis, from Greek φρένησις, a later equivalent of φρενῖτις, inflammation of the brain: see frantic and frenetic.
  2. from frenzy, n.
 

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