Panic and Dislocation

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.

noun

• An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity.
  • synonyms: disruption
• The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue.
  • usage: "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
  • synonyms: breakdown
• A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column. ).

• (n.) The act of displacing or the state of being displaced.
• (n.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
• (n.) The act of dislocating or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.