Panic and Upset

panic

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

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

upset

An unhappy and worried mental state.
- usage: "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
- synonyms: disturbance, perturbation
The act of disturbing the mind or body.
- usage: "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
- synonyms: derangement, overthrow
A physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning.
- usage: "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
- synonyms: disorder
A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging.
- synonyms: swage
The act of upsetting something.
- usage: "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
- synonyms: overturn, turnover
An improbable and unexpected victory.
- usage: "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
- synonyms: overturn

Disturb the balance or stability of.
- usage: "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
Cause to lose one's composure.
- synonyms: discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
Move deeply.
- usage: "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
- synonyms: disturb, trouble
Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position.
- usage: "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
- synonyms: overturn, tip over, turn over, knock over, bowl over, tump over
Form metals with a swage.
- synonyms: swage
Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly.
- usage: "The foreign team upset the local team"

Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
- usage: "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children"
- synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried
Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion.
- usage: "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
- synonyms: broken, confused, disordered
Used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win.
- usage: "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
Mildly physically distressed.
- usage: "an upset stomach"
Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom.
- usage: "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket"
- synonyms: overturned, upturned

(v.t.) To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.
(v.t.) To overturn, overthrow or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
(v.t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
(a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
(v.t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
(v.i.) To become upset.
(v.t.) To set up; to put upright.
(n.) The act of upsetting or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
(v.t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary