Panic and Funk

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

• A state of nervous depression.
  • usage: "he was in a funk"
  • synonyms: blue funk
• United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967.
  • synonyms: Casimir Funk
• An earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar.

verb

• Draw back, as with fear or pain.
  • usage: "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
  • synonyms: flinch, squinch, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail

• (n.) Alternative of Funking.
• (v.i.) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
• (v.i.) To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
• (n.) An offensive smell; a stench.
• (v.t.) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
• (v.t.) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
• (v.t.) To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task.
• (n.) One who funks; a shirk; a coward.