Panic and Doubt

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

• The state of being unsure of something.
  • synonyms: uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
• Uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something.
  • usage: "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise"
  • synonyms: dubiousness, doubtfulness, question

verb

• Consider unlikely or have doubts about.
  • usage: "I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage"
• Lack confidence in or have doubts about.
  • usage: "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother"

• (v.t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
• (v.i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
• (v.i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
• (v.i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
• (v.i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
• (v.i.) Uncertainty of condition.
• (v.t.) To fill with fear; to affright.
• (v.i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
• (v.t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.