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FRENZY
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Irregular inflected form: frenzied
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
State of violent mental agitation
Synonyms:
craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("frenzy" is a kind of...):
mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frenzy"):
nympholepsy (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)
epidemic hysertia; mass hysteria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation)
Context examples:
Faster and faster it flew, beating against walls and chandeliers in a blind frenzy of alarm.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She rushed upon White Fang in frenzied wrath.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A disorder characterized by abnormal, repetitive, involuntary muscle movements, frenzied speech and extreme restlessness.
(Extrapyramidal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
“It is shame and sin to see two Christian Englishmen turn swords against each other like the frenzied bloodthirsty paynim.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Astronomers theorize that this frenzied star birth was sparked by a torrent of gas flowing into the galaxy's core while it formed deep inside a gravitational well of dark matter, invisible cosmic material that acts as the scaffolding of the universe for galaxy construction.
(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)
Every moment was drive, drive, drive, and Joe was the masterful shepherd of moments, herding them carefully, never losing one, counting them over like a miser counting gold, working on in a frenzy, toil-mad, a feverish machine, aided ably by that other machine that thought of itself as once having been one Martin Eden, a man.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was Buck, a live hurricane of fury, hurling himself upon them in a frenzy to destroy.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Some days since: nay, I can number them—four; it was last Monday night, a singular mood came over me: one in which grief replaced frenzy—sorrow, sullenness.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
