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noun
verb
adj
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of 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.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (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
- intense and profound fear
- intense aversion
- something that inspires horror; something horrible
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
noun
verb
noun
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- A Rastafarian.
- (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- fearful expectation or anticipation
adj
verb
noun
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
verb
adj
prefix
noun
- a feeling of fear and revulsion
- a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
- (figurative) A feeling or sensation of fear or horror.
- plural of creep
- (figurative) A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
verb
adj
- causing fear or dread or terror
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
- offensive or even (of persons) malicious
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Very bad.
- Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
adv
adj
- causing fear or dread or terror
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- (fantasy, gaming) Ferocious and of intimidating appearance, like a dire wolf.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
adj
adv
noun
adj
- causing fear or dread or terror
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- Very bad; lousy.
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Formidable, powerful.
- Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
adv
noun
verb
adj
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
adv
noun
- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
noun
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
verb
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
noun
verb
noun
verb
adj
- filled with fear or apprehension
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
adj
- so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified
- lacking sensation
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way.
- (Maine) Dumb or stupid.
- Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.
verb
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
noun
- a sudden numbing dread
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
verb
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
adj
noun
- a sudden numbing dread
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
- (figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
- (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
- Alternative form of pawl.
- (heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
- (Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
verb
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- cover with a pall
- become less interesting or attractive
- cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
- cause to become flat
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
- (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
- (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
- Alternative form of pawl.
adj
- in a state of cowardly fright
- (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
- offensively malodorous
- stylish and modern in an unconventional way
- Having a foul or unpleasant smell.
- (slang, UK, US) Cool; great; excellent.
- (music) Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
- (US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
- (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
noun
verb
adj
noun
- intense and profound fear
- intense aversion
- something that inspires horror; something horrible
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
noun
verb
noun
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- A Rastafarian.
- (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- fearful expectation or anticipation
adj
verb
noun
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
verb
adj
noun
- a feeling of fear and revulsion
- a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
- (figurative) A feeling or sensation of fear or horror.
- plural of creep
- (figurative) A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
verb
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
noun
verb
noun
verb
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of 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.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (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
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
noun
- a sudden numbing dread
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
verb
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
adj
noun
- a sudden numbing dread
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
- (figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
- (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
- Alternative form of pawl.
- (heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
- (Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
verb
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- cover with a pall
- become less interesting or attractive
- cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
- cause to become flat
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
- (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
- (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
- Alternative form of pawl.
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of 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.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (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
verb
adj
noun
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
verb
adj
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
noun
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- A Rastafarian.
- (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- fearful expectation or anticipation
adj
verb
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of 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.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (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
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- A Rastafarian.
- (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- fearful expectation or anticipation
adj
verb
adj
- causing fear or dread or terror
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
- offensive or even (of persons) malicious
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Very bad.
- Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
adv
adj
- causing fear or dread or terror
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- (fantasy, gaming) Ferocious and of intimidating appearance, like a dire wolf.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
adj
adv
noun
adj
- causing fear or dread or terror
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- Very bad; lousy.
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Formidable, powerful.
- Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
adv
adj
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
adv
noun
- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
adj
- filled with fear or apprehension
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
adj
- so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified
- lacking sensation
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way.
- (Maine) Dumb or stupid.
- Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.
verb
adj
- in a state of cowardly fright
- (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
- offensively malodorous
- stylish and modern in an unconventional way
- Having a foul or unpleasant smell.
- (slang, UK, US) Cool; great; excellent.
- (music) Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
- (US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
- (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.