Panic and Stiff

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 ordinary man.
  • usage: "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
• The dead body of a human being.
  • usage: "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
  • synonyms: cadaver, corpse, clay, remains

adjective

• Not moving or operating freely.
  • usage: "a stiff hinge"
• Powerful.
  • usage: "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"
• Rigidly formal.
  • usage: "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
  • synonyms: starchy, buckram
• Having a strong physiological or chemical effect.
  • usage: "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea, "a stiff drink"
  • synonyms: potent, strong
• Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.
  • usage: "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"
  • synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering
• Incapable of or resistant to bending.
  • usage: "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"
  • synonyms: rigid
• Very drunk.
  • synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet

adverb

• Extremely.
  • usage: "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
• In a stiff manner.
  • usage: "his hands lay stiffly"
  • synonyms: stiffly

• (superl.) Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
• (superl.) Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
• (superl.) Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
• (superl.) Very large, strong or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
• (superl.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
• (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
• (superl.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
• (superl.) Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.