Panic and Flutter

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 act of moving back and forth.
  • synonyms: waver, flicker
• Abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block.
• A disorderly outburst or tumult.
  • usage: "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
  • synonyms: disturbance, disruption, commotion, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle
• The motion made by flapping up and down.
  • synonyms: flap, flapping, fluttering

verb

• Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.
  • usage: "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"
  • synonyms: flit, fleet, dart
• Move back and forth very rapidly.
  • usage: "the candle flickered"
  • synonyms: flicker, waver, flitter, quiver
• Flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements.
  • usage: "The seagulls fluttered overhead"
• Beat rapidly.
  • usage: "His heart palpitated"
  • synonyms: palpitate
• Wink briefly.
  • usage: "bat one's eyelids"
  • synonyms: bat

• (n.) Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
• (n.) The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
• (v.t.) To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
• (v.t.) To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.