Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a frantic or furious manner; madly; wildly.

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  • adverb In a frantic way.

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  • adverb in an uncontrolled manner

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Examples

  • I repeated the word frantically as motivation to keep my head and not succumb to panic.

    Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010

  • I repeated the word frantically as motivation to keep my head and not succumb to panic.

    Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010

  • However, "Smile" finally started talking to me this morning, which is encouraging, even if it's really just my brain frantically trying to stop me from working on the novel.

    i do my best but i am made of mistakes matociquala 2009

  • My brain frantically, manically searched for a way of escape.

    ProWomanProLife » Getting rid of Down Syndrome children 2009

  • I called frantically, halting them in their tracks.

    Christmas Magic Jack Canfield 2010

  • The trouble is your brain frantically scans up and down the columns for the numbers and forgets to look laterally for completed rows, I could feel bits of my cerebral hemispheres creaking undone like screwed up newspaper and the tension was indescribable.

    45 entries from March 2008 2008

  • The trouble is your brain frantically scans up and down the columns for the numbers and forgets to look laterally for completed rows, I could feel bits of my cerebral hemispheres creaking undone like screwed up newspaper and the tension was indescribable.

    Eyes down 2008

  • The trouble is your brain frantically scans up and down the columns for the numbers and forgets to look laterally for completed rows, I could feel bits of my cerebral hemispheres creaking undone like screwed up newspaper and the tension was indescribable.

    Eyes down 2008

  • I was never jealous of her relationship with a guy who almost broke my hand when he shook it, or when she called frantically to tell me that she had caught him jerking off in her bed and I just stop.

    Stuff I Don’t Like. « Hilarity Ensues 2009

  • But Giulani has joined with Bush in frantically lying to the American people to cover up the past acts that provoked Sept 11.

    Matthew Yglesias » Rudy’s Appeal 2007

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