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Frenzied   /frˈɛnzid/   Listen
Frenzied

adjective
1.
Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.  Synonym: manic.  "A frenzied mob" , "The prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused" , "Outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity"
2.
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion.  Synonyms: frantic, frenetic, phrenetic.  "Frenetic screams followed the accident" , "A frenzied look in his eye"






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"Frenzied" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a further invitation I bolted up the winding runway which led to the second floor, and entering a great chamber at the front of the building was greeted by the frenzied Woola, who threw his great carcass upon me, nearly hurling me to the floor; the poor old fellow was so glad to see me that I thought he would devour me, his head split from ear to ear, showing his three rows of ...
— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... for him, to have a doubt about the identity of the birds, who were now throwing their shadows over that lone lake of the Himalayas. He had no doubt. The very certainty that the birds above him were the gigantic cranes of the Ganges—the sacred birds of Brahma—caused him to utter a sort of frenzied shout, and at the same time, dropping his "sack of beans" into ...
— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid

... restive shoulders the rheumatism snarled and clawed like some utterly frenzied animal trying to gnaw-gnaw-gnaw its way out. Along the tortured hollow of his back a red-hot plaster fumed and mulled and sucked at the pain like a hideously poisoned fang trying to gnaw-gnaw-gnaw its way in. Worse than ...
— Molly Make-Believe • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... sulked. Even his friends, the fur-lined tenants of Swalecliffe Arms, noticed that something worried the swart guardian of their gate. In the evenings Ambrose gave his entire time to frenzied rolling of the bones and was surprised to see that here, at least, ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... their faces, and with the noise of splintering wood below, they made a rush at the money on the floor. The boxer ran swearing into the ring to hide the kip and the pennies, butting with his bull shoulders against a mob of frenzied gaffers mad with fear and greed, grabbing at any coins they could reach in despair of finding their own. The news spread like fire. The school was surrounded by a hundred policemen in plain clothes and uniform; every outlet from the alley ...
— Jonah • Louis Stone


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