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Plural of panic

regular plural

The plural of panic is panics.

Forms of panic

Singularpanic /ˈpænɪk/
Pluralpanics
Countablecountable and uncountable

Panics in a sentence

  • If your new driver has an error that panics the system when you load the driver, then the system will panic again when it tries to reboot after the panic.2010, Solaris system engineers, “Managing Devices”, in Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (Solaris System Administration Series)...
  • The bogeyman of a Halloween-candy poisoner behind every door has animated occasional moral panics against trick-or-treating.From the entry bogeyman
  • Moral panics have existed since well before the Salem witch trials — perhaps the paradigm case.2023 June 29, Pamela Paul, “Do Not Panic. It’s Just a Moral Panic.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry moral panic
  • When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry indifferent
  • There have been more bank runs, executives on the lam, arrests and credit panics than the country has seen in years.2012 September 15, “Vietnam: A Tiger at Bay”, in The Economist. From the entry on the lam

Meaning of panic

  1. adjective Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
  2. adjective Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.
  3. noun Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.

Full definition of panic

Questions about the plural of panic

What is the plural of panic?
The plural of panic is panics.
Is panic countable?
Panic is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: panic (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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