C2 almost out of control because of extreme emotion , such as worry :. Where on earth have you been? We've been frantic with worry. See more results ». Anxious and worried. C2 done or arranged in a hurry and a state of excitement or confusion :. Share prices have soared to a new all-time high in a day of frantic trading on the stock market. Rescuers were engaged in a frantic all-night effort to reach the survivors before their supply of air ran out. Hurrying and doing things quickly.
Rescuers made frantic efforts to dig out people buried by the mudslide. When his wife arrived at the hospital she was frantic with worry. There have been frantic attempts by central banks to restore order on the exchanges. More than million shares changed hands in frantic trading. Examples of frantic. Frantic activity, however, does not of itself produce change. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
The hurried judgements suggest a frantic attempt to find some legal base for what is in effect a moral and personal decision. The almost frantic rush to grasp every opportunity, especially during the early months of the war, had led to over-investment in some industries. Frantic government attempts to call a special court session to suspend the injunctions failed and as a result the auction was postponed indefinitely.
Any doubts raised by other historians are dismissed by a frantic wave of the hand. They had believed that they were in a frantic race to save the western democracies. The air of frantic anxiety was so thick you could smell it, even through the haze of cigarette smoke.
Despite the natures of the sounds - soft unvoiced, ephemeral - there is a kind of frantic urgency throughout. The assessment should not trigger off frantic practising, but the ward sister can arrange for the student to have the relevant experience. Up to this point the story has been told in limp and lackluster prose, but now the tone becomes frantic and feverish.
Their soldiers are bored, the tedium relieved only by seconds of frantic danger and usually futile endeavour. Clinicians have noted that much of the cognitive distortion of borderline individuals is a function of a frantic fear of abandonment or rejection. Imperialism could not be understood any longer as the frantic search for 'third markets'.
The lady said, "trying to reconcile the different clocks is like this new burden, something else to get frantic about". The ships and docks evoke departures and arrivals ; the cemetery suggests bereavements ; the crowd scenes, frantic searches for missing characters.
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