adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Panic-stricken passengers trampled one another rushing for the exits.
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In a panic-stricken attempt to free herself from Annie's grip, she snatched the scissors off the table.
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Mr Cottle dashed in, looking panic-stricken .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A horse may steal your jumper and then become panic-stricken because it is chasing him!
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He reminded Dexter of a panic-stricken mole who had suddenly found himself trapped outside his burrow.
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I did the only sensible thing any panic-stricken woman would have done under similar circumstances: I packed.
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Isabel screamed again, twisting her head from side to side, catapulted brutally into panic-stricken hysteria.
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Now that she had offered to stay she was almost panic-stricken by her own actions.
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Still no gas, still no bombs, we were so panic-stricken in those early days.
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Still no sound escaped, only a rush of panic-stricken breath.
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The panic-stricken people in the town thought only that they would be killed or enslaved and their city ruined.