FRENZY


Meaning of FRENZY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

feeding

It is high-tea; time for another feeding frenzy .

His feeding frenzy exhausted, he was torpid, unable to pay attention to the rat in her maze.

Green Bay went into a feeding frenzy in the free-agency market, and came up with some star names.

■ NOUN

media

The royal wedding is creating little media frenzy around the world.

Amidst the media frenzy over Mayday in London various things have been forgotten.

■ VERB

feed

And all around this feeding frenzy were other flocks of gulls, which have added up at peak counts to 10,000 birds.

On defense, they are hungrier than sharks in a feeding frenzy .

Gold from California fed the frenzy .

The dorados were in a feeding frenzy , oblivious to all else.

The yeast completes a final feeding frenzy and dies.

The incident has triggered what can only be described as a media feeding frenzy about shark attacks.

work

A 16-year-old girl works herself into a frenzy of grief for a friend killed by right-wing vigilantes.

Make sure that the horse stays calm and does not work himself into a frenzy .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

work yourself into a frenzy/panic/state etc

A 16-year-old girl works herself into a frenzy of grief for a friend killed by right-wing vigilantes.

I could see at once he was working himself into a panic about it all.

I knew I was working myself into a state, but I kept on staring at the picture of the dead girl.

It was silly to work himself into a state like this.

Make sure that the horse stays calm and does not work himself into a frenzy.

You're working yourself into a state.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But most of the frenzy was elsewhere.

Have any other readers found this plant sends their feline friend into a frenzy ?

On Buy Nothing Day enjoy a break from the shopping frenzy .

Sense reels with the intoxicating frenzy .

The frenzy of rebuilding is now past.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.