different between panic vs dismay
panic
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pæn?k/
- Rhymes: -æn?k
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek ??????? (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from ??? (Pán, “Pan”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Alternative forms
- panick (obsolete)
Adjective
panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)
- (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
- Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
Noun
panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)
- Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
- (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)
- (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
- (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
- (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
- (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.
Translations
Related terms
- panicky
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Noun
panic
- (botany) A plant of the genus Panicum.
Synonyms
- panicgrass, panic grass
Anagrams
- cap'in, incap
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pa??t?s]
- Hyphenation: pa?nic
Noun
panic m anim (feminine panna)
- male virgin
Declension
Related terms
- panna f
- pán m
- paní f
Further reading
- panic in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.nik/
Noun
panic m (plural panics)
- (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass
Synonyms
- pied-de-coq
- patte de poule
- crête de coq
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa?it?s/
Noun
panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)
- male virgin
Declension
Derived terms
- panický
- panicky
- panickos?, panictvo
Related terms
- panna f
Further reading
- panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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dismay
English
Etymology
From Middle English dismayen, from Anglo-Norman *desmaiier, alteration of Old French esmaier (“to frighten”), probably from Vulgar Latin *exmagare (“to deprive (someone) of strength, to disable”), from ex- + *magare (“to enable, empower”), from Proto-Germanic *magin?, *magan? (“might, power”), from Proto-Indo-European *meg?- (“to be able”). Akin to Old High German magan, megin (“power, might, main”), Old English mæ?en (“might, main”), Old High German magan, mugan (“to be powerful, able”), Old English magan (“to be able”). Cognate with Portuguese desmaiar (“to faint”). See also Portuguese esmagar, Spanish amagar. More at main, may.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?me?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Verb
dismay (third-person singular simple present dismays, present participle dismaying, simple past and past participle dismayed)
- To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy
- Synonyms: daunt, appall, terrify
- 1611, King James Version, Josh. i. 9
- Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.
- What words be these? What fears do you dismay?
- To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
- To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, III. iii. 1:
- Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, III. iii. 1:
Translations
Noun
dismay (uncountable)
- A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits
- Synonym: consternation
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene 3
- Come on: in this there can be no dismay;
- My ships come home a month before the day.
- Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
Translations
Anagrams
- yidams
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