Meanings (ES + gloss)
pánico
Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fal…
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and invi…
Phrases
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aterrar • espantar
To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
He told us he'd almost stepped on Ellen's body that night—dead and stiffening. Then I'd come round the corner and hailed him, and that panicked him.