Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to panic
Participle: panicked
Gerund: panicking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | panic |
| you | panic |
| he;she;it | panics |
| we | panic |
| you | panic |
| they | panic |
Perfect
| I | have panicked |
| you | have panicked |
| he;she;it | has panicked |
| we | have panicked |
| you | have panicked |
| they | have panicked |
Past
| I | panicked |
| you | panicked |
| he;she;it | panicked |
| we | panicked |
| you | panicked |
| they | panicked |
Pluperfect
| I | had panicked |
| you | had panicked |
| he;she;it | had panicked |
| we | had panicked |
| you | had panicked |
| they | had panicked |
Future
| I | will panic |
| you | will panic |
| he;she;it | will panic |
| we | will panic |
| you | will panic |
| they | will panic |
Future Perfect
| I | will have panicked |
| you | will have panicked |
| he;she;it | will have panicked |
| we | will have panicked |
| you | will have panicked |
| they | will have panicked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | panic |
| you | panic |
| he;she;it | panic |
| we | panic |
| you | panic |
| they | panic |
Perfect
| I | have panicked |
| you | have panicked |
| he;she;it | have panicked |
| we | have panicked |
| you | have panicked |
| they | have panicked |
Imperfect
| I | panicked |
| you | panicked |
| he;she;it | panicked |
| we | panicked |
| you | panicked |
| they | panicked |
Pluperfect
| I | had panicked |
| you | had panicked |
| he;she;it | had panicked |
| we | had panicked |
| you | had panicked |
| they | had panicked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would panic |
| you | would panic |
| he;she;it | would panic |
| we | would panic |
| you | would panic |
| they | would panic |
Perfect
| I | would have panicked |
| you | would have panicked |
| he;she;it | would have panicked |
| we | would have panicked |
| you | would have panicked |
| they | would have panicked |
Imperative
| you | panic |
| we | Let's panic |
| you | panic |
Verbs conjugated like 'panic'
bivouac,
critic,
fabric,
frolic,
havoc,
limbec,
mimic,
physic,
picnic,
prognostic,
rollic,
rubric,
traffic,
zinc,
Verbs similar to 'panic'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The adjective is borrowed from Middle French panique, a word itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”); Pan, the Greek god of fields and woods, was believed to be the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
2. Adjective sense 3 (“pertaining to or resulting from overpowering fear or fright”) is partly an attributive use of the noun.
3. The noun is derived from the adjective, while the verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.3 (“to highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show”) is derived from noun sense 4 (“a highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show”).
Verbs referencing "panic"
Greek
πανικοβάλλω, Japanese
パニクる.
Sample Sentences
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He told us he'd almost stepped on Ellen's body that night—dead and stiffening. Then I'd come round the corner and hailed him, and that panicked him. [1927 October, Rudyard Kipling, “Fairy-Kist”, in Limits and Renewals, Dominions edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1932, →OCLC, page 169:]
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If your new driver has an error that panics the system when you load the driver, then the system will panic again when it tries to reboot after the panic. The system will continue the cycle of panic, reboot, and panic as it attempts to reload the faulty driver every time it reboots after panic. [2010, Solaris system engineers, “Managing Devices”, in Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (Solaris System Administration Series), Santa Clara, Calif.: Sun Microsystems Press, →ISBN, section 9.3.4.2 (Avoiding Recurring Panic):]
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I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day and then I want you to act. [2019 January 25, 5:22 from the start, in Our House is on Fire, spoken by Greta Thunberg, Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland: World Economic Forum:]