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FRANTICALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an uncontrolled manner

Example:

she fought back madly

Synonyms:

frantically; madly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

frantic (excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He did not delay notwithstanding this, for as Jonathan, with desperate energy, attacked one end of the chest, attempting to prize off the lid with his great Kukri knife, he attacked the other frantically with his bowie.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I ran frantically up the stairs and along the passage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence in the strongest terms.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Challenger sprang into the air bellowing like a bull, and tore frantically at his coat and shirt to get them off.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She ran frantically, hysterically, straining to the utmost, advertising the effort she was making with every leap: and all the time White Fang slid smoothly away from her silently, without effort, gliding like a ghost over the ground.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)