noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ blind , complete , mad ( esp. BrE ), pure , sheer , total , utter
▪ mild , minor ( esp. BrE ), slight
▪ momentary
▪ growing , mounting ( esp. BrE ), rising
▪ mass , widespread
▪ public
▪ general
▪ sudden
▪ last-minute
▪
There was a last-minute ~ when nobody could find the tickets.
▪ financial , moral
▪
a moral ~ over rising crime rates
… OF PANIC
▪ surge , wave
▪
I felt a surge of ~ when I realized my mistake.
VERB + PANIC
▪ feel
▪
He felt ~ rising within him.
▪ get into ( esp. BrE ), go into
▪
She went into a blind ~ when she couldn't find the exit.
▪ cause , create , spread
▪ fill sb with , throw sb into
▪
The thought of being in charge threw him into a mild ~.
PANIC + VERB
▪ break out , spread across, through, etc. sth , sweep over, through, etc. sth
▪
Panic swept through the crowd.
▪ fill sb/sth , grip sb , seize sb , set in
▪ grow , rise , well up
▪ subside
▪ ensue
▪
In the ensuing ~, they lost each other.
PANIC + NOUN
▪ attack
▪
She still has ~ attacks two years after the accident.
▪ disorder
▪
people suffering from depression and ~ disorders
▪ reaction , symptoms
▪ button
▪
The shopkeeper pressed the ~ button and the police arrived in minutes.
▪ room
▪
The house includes a ~ room which you can run to if intruders enter the house.
▪ mode
▪
Eli was clearly in ~ mode.
▪ buying ( esp. BrE )
▪
Panic buying turned the shortage into a crisis.
PREPOSITION
▪ in (a) ~
▪
He jumped out of the car in a ~.
▪
People fled in ~.
▪ with ~
▪
Her mind went blank with ~.
▪ ~ about
▪
~ about food contamination
▪ ~ among
▪
~ among the population
▪ ~ over
▪
The keys were lost during the ~ over the fire alarm.
PHRASES
▪ a feeling of ~ , a sense of ~
▪ in a state of ~
▪ a look of ~
▪
A look of ~ spread across the boy's face.
▪ a moment of ~ , a moment's ~ ( esp. BrE )