Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)panic, scaresudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events“panic in the stock market”,
“a war scare”,
“a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building” Verbs
(v)panicbe overcome by a sudden fear“The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away” (v)paniccause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic“The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners”