frantically
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fran·tic
(frăn′tĭk)adj.
1. Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry.
2. Characterized by rapid and disordered or nervous activity: made a frantic last-minute search for the lost key.
3. Archaic Mentally deranged.
[Middle English frantik, from Old French frenetique, from Latin phrenēticus; see frenetic.]
fran′ti·cal·ly, fran′tic·ly adv.
fran′tic·ness n.
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Adv. | 1. | frantically - in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly" |
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frantically
adverbIn a violent, strenuous way:
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Translations
باهْتِياج
horečnězoufale
hektisktstresset
őrjöngve
meî æsingi
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frantically
adv
(= desperately) try, search → verzweifelt
(= hectically) work, run around → hektisch; wave, scribble, scramble, run → wie wild; she is frantically busy → sie hat wahnsinnig viel zu tun (inf)
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frantic
(ˈfrӕntik) adjective1. anxious or very worried. The frantic mother searched for her child.
2. wildly excited. the frantic pace of modern life.
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