Frenzy meaning

frĕn'zē
Wild or frantic outburst of feeling or action.
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The definition of a frenzy is wild, chaotic or out-of-control behavior.

An example of a frenzy is the behavior of fans after their team wins a big game.

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To make frantic; drive mad.
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A state of wild activity or panic.

She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.

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A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
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(uncommon) To render frantic.
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A state of violent mental agitation or wild excitement.
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Temporary madness or delirium.
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A mania; a craze.
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To drive into a frenzy.
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(obsolete) Mad; frantic.
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Origin of frenzy

  • Middle English frenesie from Old French from Medieval Latin phrenēsia from Latin phrenēsis back-formation from phrenēticus delirious frenetic
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenitis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic.
    From Wiktionary

Frenzy Sentence Examples

  • He was the one person on earth who could send her heart into a frenzy with one kiss.

  • Every day she worked in a frenzy, trying to keep him out of her mind.

  • It is equally a soul or spirit in wine which inspires the intoxicated; the old Egyptian kings avoided wine at table and in libations, because it was the blood of rebels who had fought with the gods, and out of whose rotting bodies grew the vines; to drink the blood was to imbibe the soul of these rebels, and the frenzy of intoxication which followed was held to be possession by their spirits.

  • A joyful, unexpected frenzy, of which he had thought himself incapable, possessed him.

  • This soon caused a frenzy of stock-jobbing, which disturbed the stability of private fortunes and social positions, and depraved customs and manners with the seductive notion of easily obtained riches.

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