panic-stricken
adjective
overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like.
panic-struck
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a variation of
panic-stricken.
Example Sentences
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I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
As if panic-struck, Brougham broke off, and ran upon some other tack.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville
I stood for a moment panic-struck at the horrible spectacle.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
The English were surprised and panic-struck, and left six hundred dead on the field of battle.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
Never since the days of Robinson Crusoe was ever man so panic-struck by footprints in the sand as I. Although it was broad daylight, and the air was alive with sounds, I fairly trembled.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
