panic attack
panic attack
1. An episode of acute anxiety and fear, marked by such physical symptoms as heart palpitations and hyperventilation. My panic attacks got so bad at one point that I was afraid to leave the house.
2. By extension, a particularly frightening, jarring, or anxious experience. I thought I had lost my keys and just about had a panic attack.
See also: attack, panic
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- have a panic attack
- panic
- a faint heart
- faint
- faint of heart
- the faint of heart
- panic (one) by (doing something)
- panic by
- tremble with
- tremble with (something)