Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
frantically .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb rare In a
frantic manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if that be thy lover who calls franticly upon thee from the beetling rock, who is he that sits at thy side, wearing the form and semblance of that lover, and speaking with the soft and kind tones which were ever his when addressing the flower of the forest maids?
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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If I thought this was a real person I would picture them as a lonely anorexic sitting in a barren room, alternating between peering into the darkness with an outsized pair of WW2 binoculars and franticly twisting their Glenn Beck secret decoder ring.
Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010
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We didn't go spreading facetious propaganda or start franticly arming our supporters like you guys seem to be doing.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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We didn't go spreading facetious propaganda or start franticly arming our supporters like you guys seem to be doing.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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The voice on the other end franticly told me to turn on the Iranian satellite channel, Iran NTV, adding that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's forces had stormed Camp Ashraf just hours before.
Hajar Mojtahedzadeh: Stop the Killings at Camp Ashraf Hajar Mojtahedzadeh 2011
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We didn't go spreading facetious propaganda or start franticly arming our supporters like you guys seem to be doing.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Shinichi Hayasaka, a 34-year-old mechanic at an aviation maintenance company JAMCO Corp., searched franticly for his station wagon that had been washed away from his office parking lot when the tsunami stuck on Friday afternoon.
In One Hard-Hit Town, Recovery Begins Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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The voice on the other end franticly told me to turn on the Iranian satellite channel, Iran NTV, adding that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's forces had stormed Camp Ashraf just hours before.
Hajar Mojtahedzadeh: Stop the Killings at Camp Ashraf Hajar Mojtahedzadeh 2011
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I again received the silent answer, but this time I could see the shock on her face as she franticly search for words until at last she said,“I love all of my children,” before she turned away to busy herself with other activities.
The Law Of Love Joe Hartley 2011
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The voice on the other end franticly told me to turn on the Iranian satellite channel, Iran NTV, adding that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's forces had stormed Camp Ashraf just hours before.
Hajar Mojtahedzadeh: Stop the Killings at Camp Ashraf Hajar Mojtahedzadeh 2011
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