frenzied








adjective

  1. wildly excited or enthusiastic: frenzied applause.
  2. violently agitated; frantic; wild: a frenzied mob.

noun, plural fren·zies.

  1. extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
  2. a fit or spell of violent mental excitement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania: He is subject to these frenzies several times a year.

verb (used with object), fren·zied, fren·zy·ing.

  1. to drive to frenzy; make frantic: She was frenzied by fear when she smelled the smoke.

adjective

  1. filled with or as if with frenzy; wild; frantic

noun plural -zies

  1. violent mental derangement
  2. wild excitement or agitation; distraction
  3. a bout of wild or agitated activitya frenzy of preparations

verb -zies, -zying or -zied

  1. (tr) to make frantic; drive into a frenzy
adj.

1796; see frenzy.

n.

mid-14c., “delirium, insanity,” from Old French frenesie, from Medieval Latin phrenesia, from phrenesis, back-formation from Latin phreneticus “delirious” (see frenetic). Meaning “excited state of mind” is from c.1400.

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