FRENZIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frenzied mean? 

• FRENZIED (adjective)
  The adjective FRENZIED has 2 senses:

1. affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason

2. excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

  Familiarity information: FRENZIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENZIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason

Synonyms:

frenzied; manic

Context example:

outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity

Similar:

wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

Synonyms:

frantic; frenetic; frenzied; phrenetic

Context example:

a frenzied look in his eye

Similar:

agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)

 Context examples 

He went on with his work with, if possible, renewed and more frenzied vigour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Now, Watson, now!” cried Holmes with frenzied eagerness.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A disorder characterized by abnormal, repetitive, involuntary muscle movements, frenzied speech and extreme restlessness.

(Extrapyramidal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

She rushed upon White Fang in frenzied wrath.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“It is shame and sin to see two Christian Englishmen turn swords against each other like the frenzied bloodthirsty paynim.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How else can we explain her frenzied anxiety that her second one should not enter it?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With yells of triumph the Indians came flocking down from their caves and danced a frenzied dance of victory round the dead bodies, in mad joy that two more of the most dangerous of all their enemies had been slain.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Belcher was half frenzied by this sudden ending of all the pains which he had taken in the training, and could only rave out threats at Berks and his companions, with terrible menaces as to what he would do when he met them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers theorize that this frenzied star birth was sparked by a torrent of gas flowing into the galaxy's core while it formed deep inside a gravitational well of dark matter, invisible cosmic material that acts as the scaffolding of the universe for galaxy construction.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)