Panic and Confound

noun

• An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
  • synonyms: terror, affright
• Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
  • usage: "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
  • synonyms: scare

verb

• Be overcome by a sudden fear.
  • usage: "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
• Cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic.
  • usage: "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"

• (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
• (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; especially, a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
• (a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
• (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.

verb

• Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.
  • usage: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
  • synonyms: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, discombobulate
• Mistake one thing for another.
  • usage: "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
  • synonyms: confuse

• (v.t.) To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
• (v.t.) To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
• (v.t.) To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
• (v.t.) To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.