panic

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When Mrs Denbigh came forward, the panic was at its height, and the alarm of course aggravated the disorder.

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  1. noun A sudden, overpowering terror, often affecting many people at once. See Synonyms at fear.
  2. noun A sudden widespread alarm concerning finances, often resulting in a rush to sell property: a stock-market panic.
  3. noun Slang One that is uproariously funny.

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  • The profits that vaccine companies such as Baxter International could reap out of such a panic are astronomical. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • If this panic is a result of a trillion deficit deficit, what would be the response to an additional trillion dollars piled on the deficit? —  TPMCafe
  • The profits that vaccine companies such as Baxter International could reap out of such a panic are astronomical. as we have previously reported, those that have a stake in the Tamiflu vaccine include top globalists and BIlderberg members like George Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. —  Infowars
  • The next step of this panic could be the mother of all bank runs, i.e. a run on the trillion dollar-plus of the cross-border short-term interbank liabilities of the U.S. banking and financial system, as foreign banks start to worry about the safety of their liquid exposures to U.S. financial institutions. —  The Peking Duck
  • Buy when the panic is at its peak bearing in mind the risks and the rewards.
 

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  1. From French panique, terrified, from Greek Pānikos, of Pan (a source of terror, as in flocks or herds), groundless (used of fear), from Pān, Pan; see Pan.
 

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