adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desperate/frantic search
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After the war, many people returned to rural areas in a desperate search for food.
a hectic/frantic pace (= a very fast and hurried speed )
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We worked at a hectic pace.
a mad/frantic dash (= very fast, usually because you are worried about something )
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‘Something’s burning’, she said, making a mad dash for the kitchen.
be sick/frantic with worry
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The girl's mother was sick with worry over her missing daughter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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And a more frantic presence was trapped behind the skirting board.
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Urquhart's muffled groans became more frantic .
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Voices, music, sirens, horns were louder, brasher, more frantic .
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Next morning, Mildred was jolted awake by the bell ringing in a much more frantic way than usual.
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Her passivity only made him more frantic .
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The night was getting more and more frantic .
■ NOUN
activity
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After a month's frantic activity we now had an office, but we needed some one to run it.
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The previous day had been one of frantic activity .
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Much of the frantic activity in the share register can be attributed to the arbitrageurs rather than the titans of the motor industry.
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Sitting in the greenhouse with her seedlings, she was safe from the frantic activity in the house.
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I would stop the frantic activity and just follow the leads that came my way.
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In 1961 Cape Canaveral was a scene of frantic activity .
attempt
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Staff made frantic attempts to revive him but he is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack.
effort
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Despite Zborowski's frantic efforts to sell his work, Modigliani's living was still very precarious.
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But despite his frantic efforts he was unable to pull her free.
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Ignoring her frantic efforts to break free, he'd tossed his charge card down on to the counter.
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His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before.
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We felt like gods as we surveyed the distraught insects' frantic efforts to remove precious eggs from sight.
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This afternoon frantic efforts were being made to sort out the confusion.
pace
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It posed a problem for Charman because he could not sustain the song's frantic pace .
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Change continues at a frantic pace , and many voters are waiting till the last minute to make decisions.
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The fourth-round replay began at a frantic pace and burst into life after 12 minutes.
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That threat set the frantic pace at Los Alamos.
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The path continues to the Strid - a spectacular chasm where the Wharfe reaches a frantic pace .
rush
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Then there would be a frantic rush to grab an armful of branches and beat out the flames.
search
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The frantic search for trainers past is simply a reaction against the shit trainers syndrome!
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His body was erroneously producing a flood of white blood cells in a frantic search for a disease that did not exist.
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The two girls decide instead to opt for a frantic search for their long-lost father.
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Theatres, cinemas and restaurants in the area were also evacuated as police launched a frantic search and found the B-registration van.
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Stretched on the concrete of the yard I gasped and groaned in a frantic search for breath.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A frantic note had crept into Jane's voice.
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Before the game there was a frantic rush to get the last few remaining tickets.
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Her eyes were frantic with fear, and she couldn't keep still.
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I spent three frantic days getting everything ready for Christmas.
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Inspector Grimes was used to dealing with frantic parents.
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People were frantic , trying to call relatives after the earthquake.
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The dog's barking grew frantic as I approached.
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The knocking on the door and shouts became frantic .
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The staff spent three frantic days trying to get everything ready.
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There is still no news of the missing child and her parents are getting frantic .
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Throughout the night, everyone mopped floors and washed wall in a frantic effort to clean the place up for the inspectors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A stupendous cinema epic, reduced to a sort of frantic scurrying in a goldfish bowl, might merely seem ridiculous.
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Hannah was a little less apt to become frantic in busy places, such as shopping malls and grocery stores.
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I would have called, but the last few weeks have been frantic .
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It has to be here already, thought Fenella, trying to quiet the frantic thudding of her heart.
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Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol, who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier.
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There are vague, frantic movements inside the car, which is sinking faster now.