Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affected with or marked by frenzy; frantic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.
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- adjective In a state of
hurry ,panic or wildactivity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
- adjective affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason
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Examples
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At times you need to follow prompts on the screen in frenzied action, other times you need to press or move buttons and joysticks slowly on-screen or risk failing at an attempt.
GAME REVIEW: Heavy Rain (PS3) « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010
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So any criticism of Mel's increasingly desperate attacks is frenzied is it that does seem rather overheated, it seems to me that if the word frenzied Is to be banded about would be better put use describing some of the more ridiculous attacks on Obama from the blogs like this one & those that comment on them.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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So any criticism of Mel's increasingly desperate attacks is frenzied is it that does seem rather overheated, it seems to me that if the word frenzied Is to be banded about would be better put use describing some of the more ridiculous attacks on Obama from the blogs like this one & those that comment on them.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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He has started 29 postseason games, and Saturday night in frenzied Yankee Stadium he gets a chance to be their hero again by keeping his team alive in the World Series against the Florida Marlins in Game 6.
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Lewis, for instance, spent years in frenzied witch-smellings after Bolshevism, which he was able to detect in very unlikely places.
Inside the Whale 1940
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There’s a familiar body of theory that holds porn is valued and consumed precisely because of its unreality — hence, absurdly proportioned women engaging in frenzied, decontextualized copulation with strangers, in scenarios that run the gamut from merely demeaning and objectifying to full-blown grand guignol.
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CBS's new midseason series " Mad Love" has high spirits to spare—the sort, admittedly, bordering on the frenzied, which is the only kind that writers of young-couples TV comedies know.
The Spawn of 'Criminal Minds' Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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Remarkably, Mr. Veronesi sustains the opening scene's excitement as he stirs a psychological ferment from almost no action—a condition that Pietro calls "frenzied stasis."
In Translation Sam Sacks 2011
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Recalling the frenzied press outside, he had his answer.
The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005
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He recalled the frenzied repair work, the relief when the second start had been made-and the final debacle when the caterpillar track had jammed.
Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956
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