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• panic — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ blind, complete, mad (esp. BrE), pure, sheer, total, utter ▪ mild, minor (esp. BrE) …   Collocations dictionary

• panic — pan|ic1 S3 [ˈpænık] n [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: panique caused by panic , from Greek panikos, from Pan ancient Greek god of nature, who caused great fear] 1.) [C usually singular, U] a sudden strong feeling of fear or nervousness that… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• panic — 01. The people in the movie theater began to [panic] and run for the exits when they smelled the smoke. 02. Cam s wife can t swim, so she started to [panic] when our canoe almost tipped over. 03. The citizens of Tokyo fled in [panic] when… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Panic — Pan ic, n. [Gr. to paniko n (with or without dei^ma fear): cf. F. panique. See {Panic}, a.] 1. A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• panic — 1 noun 1 (countable usually singular, uncountable) a sudden strong feeling of fear or nervousness that makes you unable to think clearly or behave sensibly: get into a panic/be thrown into (a) panic: She got into a real panic when she thought she …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• panic-stricken — ADJ GRADED If someone is panic stricken or is behaving in a panic stricken way, they are so anxious or afraid that they may act without thinking carefully. Panic stricken travellers fled for the borders... A wall collapsed and 39 people, were… …   English dictionary

• Panic —    , PANDEMONIUM, PAN    In the Greek religion, Pan, a god of forests and fields, of flocks and shepherds, came from disputed parentage. He is represented with the torso of a man and the legs, horns, and ears of a goat. Because he dwelt in the… …   Dictionary of eponyms

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• Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) — Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II (demographic estimates) Background …   Wikipedia

• Expulsion of Germans after World War II — The expulsion of Germans after World War II was the forced migration and ethnic cleansing of German nationals ( Reichsdeutsche ) and ethnic Germans ( Volksdeutsche) from the former eastern territories of Germany, former Sudetenland and other… …   Wikipedia