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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
panic1
▶noun sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety.

■ informal frenzied hurry to do something.

▶verb (panics, panicking, panicked) be affected by or cause to feel panic.

■ (panic someone into) drive someone through panic into (hasty or rash action).
– phrases
panic stations Brit. informal a state of alarm or emergency.
– derivatives
panicky adjective.
– origin C17: from Fr. panique, from mod. L. panicus, from Gk panikos, from the name of the Greek god Pan, noted for causing terror.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
panic2 (also panic grass)
▶noun a cereal or fodder grass of a group including millet. [Panicum and other genera.]
– origin ME: from L. panicum, from panus ‘ear of millet’ (lit. ‘thread wound on a bobbin’), based on Gk pēnos ‘web’, pēnion ‘bobbin’.



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