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frenzy

SubstantivAdjektivVerbin Dialogen belegt

  • //ˈfɹɛnzi//

A state of wild activity or panic.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A state of wild activity or panic.

    international media frenzy

    She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.

    It is during these frenzies that sharks have been known to bite everything in sight, including other sharks engaged in the same activity.

    At the very end of the Middle Ages, Breughel depicted country folk wrapped up in fits of mass hysteria, and the historical accounts of these rural frenzies have explained the delirium in terms of the slender diet on which the poor had to subsist during the hungry gap.

  2. 2

    A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.

    The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

    All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

    He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond.

Herkunft

From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic. Doublet of phrenesis.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    veraltetMad; frantic.

    They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

Verb

  1. 1

    To render frantic.

    Both goaded on to strife by frenzying hate.

    Then there is the absorbing, not to say frenzying, interest, which attends our important elections.

  2. 2

    seltenTo exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.

    The fresh smell of salt air, the sound of the crashing swell, the soothing immersion in the water, the sight of dolphins playing and fish frenzying beneath my board.

Formen

Plural
frenzies
Komparativ
more frenzy
Superlativ
most frenzy
Präteritum
frenzied
Partizip II
frenzied
Partizip I
frenzying
3. Person Singular
frenzies
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