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noun Psychiatry.

an intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.

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Also called anxiety attack .

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How to use panic attack in a sentence

There was one book that changed me forever, a book that felt like the intellectual equivalent of taking 10 deep breaths during a panic attack.
The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze.|Philip Kennicott|February 5, 2021|Washington Post
I’ve had so many panic attacks in these last few months while trying to get everything completed.
Partly hidden by isolation, many of the nation’s schoolchildren struggle with mental health|Donna St. George, Valerie Strauss|January 21, 2021|Washington Post
Eventually you’ll find that early physical symptoms of a panic attack don’t trigger more fear.
How to keep your anxiety from spiraling out of control|Sara Chodosh|January 15, 2021|Popular-Science
Many of these are pulled from scientific research on panic attacks specifically, but the same principles apply to preventing general bouts of anxiety—and more long-term spirals into stressful thinking patterns.
How to keep your anxiety from spiraling out of control|Sara Chodosh|January 15, 2021|Popular-Science

Some pointed to health issues as a result of their work environment, ranging from panic attacks to stress-related hair loss.
‘Always on trauma machine’: Social media managers grapple with burnout, leaving the industry|Kimeko McCoy|January 13, 2021|Digiday
“I got a panic attack in the Theory portion,” he told me recently.
The Mr. Miyagi of Wine Sommeliers|Jordan Salcito|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is a tranquil moment, and my afternoon panic attack seems like ancient history.
After War: Anger, Panic, and Sometimes Peace|Benjamin Tupper|June 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
My tranquil training afternoon in room 107 is quickly morphing into a panic attack.
After War: Anger, Panic, and Sometimes Peace|Benjamin Tupper|June 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She goes through with the wedding, but a week she later has a straight-out-of-Girls STD panic attack.
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I am a pretty nervous person, and I was fighting a panic attack as I waited for the literary icon to arrive.
James Deen: My Experience Making ‘The Canyons’|James Deen|February 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for panic attack

panic attack

noun

an episode of acute and disabling anxiety associated with such physical symptoms as hyperventilation and sweatingSee also panic disorder

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