Meaning of Frenzy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of wild activity or panic.
   countable, uncountable
2. A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“international media frenzy”

“She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.”

“It is during these frenzies that sharks have been known to bite everything in sight, including other sharks engaged in the same activity.”

“At the very end of the Middle Ages, Breughel depicted country folk wrapped up in fits of mass hysteria, and the historical accounts of these rural frenzies have explained the delirium in terms of the slender diet on which the poor had to subsist during the hungry gap.”

“The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.”

“The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.”

“All else is towering frenzy and distraction.”

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