frenzy

Definition

  • noun: great and often wild or uncontrolled activity
  • noun: a temporary madness
  • verb: to affect with frenzy
  • synonyms: delirium, insanity, derangement

Examples

  • There has been a 'feeding frenzy' among publishers to obtain the rights to her story.

  • The partygoers worked themselves (up) into a 'frenzy'.

  • the buying 'frenzy' just before Christmas

Movie quotes

  • (..) Well, that's nice. Grandpa and I are worried, grandmother. - Tat'ulda is raging. - That's easy to solve. - Burda steals the eggs. - Princess is in a frenzy. The turnips in the greenhouse are over-ripe. And you? What happened to you? This is so unfair, grandmother... (..)
    1989 Dva lidi v zoo