1. (noun)panic, terror, affright an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
2. (noun)panic, scare sudden massfear and anxietyover anticipated events
"panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
3. (verb)panic be overcome by a sudden fear "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
4. (verb)panic cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"