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frenzy
[ fren-zee ]
noun
- a state of extreme mental agitation or wild excitement:
There's something big businesses love about working their customers into a frenzy of anticipation.
Antonyms: calm
- a burst of agitated, energetic action or activity:
Athens in the late 1960s was in the midst of a building frenzy.
- a fit or spell of mental derangement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania:
He is subject to these frenzies several times a year.
Synonyms: raving, fury, rage, aberration, lunacy, insanity, madness
Antonyms: sanity
verb (used with object)
- to drive into a frenzy; make frantic:
She was frenzied by fear when she smelled the smoke.
frenzy
/ ˈfrɛnzɪ /
noun
- violent mental derangement
- wild excitement or agitation; distraction
- a bout of wild or agitated activity
a frenzy of preparations
verb
- tr to make frantic; drive into a frenzy
Other Words From
- fren·zi·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of frenzy1
Example Sentences
Middleton’s hidden battle with the disease sparked a social media frenzy last year when the public took note of her extended absence from royal events.
Trump went so far as to call for the governor's resignation in a frenzy of posts to Truth Social.
The frenzy around Littler last year was the main reason she went to this year's championship, she says.
The claims of an invasion of the Eastern seaboard by swarms of drones has every marker of a groundless social media frenzy.
After a media frenzy about the Princess of Wales' whereabouts, the 42-year-old Kate Middleton revealed in March that she also had been undergoing cancer treatment in a video.
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