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▸ adjective:  (by extension (see the etymology))
▸ adjective:  Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
▸ noun:  (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
▸ noun:  (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
▸ verb:  (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
▸ verb:  (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
▸ verb:  (intransitive)
▸ verb:  To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
▸ verb:  (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
▸ noun:  (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
▸ noun:  The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
▸ adjective:  (Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)
▸ adjective:  (Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”) [(Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)]
▸ noun:  (countable, computing) Short for kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash. [(computing) On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error.]

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