FRENZY (frenzied)

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Irregular inflected form: frenzied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does frenzy mean? 

• FRENZY (noun)
  The noun FRENZY has 1 sense:

1. state of violent mental agitation

  Familiarity information: FRENZY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENZY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

State of violent mental agitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria

Hypernyms ("frenzy" is a kind of...):

mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frenzy"):

nympholepsy (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)

epidemic hysertia; mass hysteria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation)

 Context examples 

He followed, with wild leapings, in a frenzy to overtake.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Oh, spare me, Mr. Holmes! Spare me!” she pleaded, in a frenzy of supplication.

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

It was sheer frenzy of this sort which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Turner.

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

I saw that in another moment, and with one impetus of frenzy more, I should be able to do nothing with him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then, as I tried to shake her off, she clung to me in a frenzy of entreaty.

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

“She is in a state of frenzy,” I whispered to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Surely in that moment I should have been possessed by frenzy and have destroyed my miserable existence but that my vow was heard and that I was reserved for vengeance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He sprang up, and lashed right and left at the mares, who, maddened by the unaccustomed pain, hurled themselves on in a frenzy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Pandas and horses eat about the same amount of bamboo, but a herd of more than 20 horses created veritable feeding frenzies, destroying areas that the reserve was established to protect.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)