frenzy
/ˈfɹɛnzi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.44 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.
Example Sentences
- "international media frenzy"
- "She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests."
- "It is during these frenzies that sharks have been known to bite everything in sight, including other sharks engaged in the same activity."
- "At the very end of the Middle Ages, Breughel depicted country folk wrapped up in fits of mass hysteria, and the historical accounts of these rural frenzies have explained the delirium in terms of the slender diet on which the poor had to subsist during the hungry gap."
- "The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building."
- "The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling."
Etymology
From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic. Doublet of phrenesis.
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Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
frenzies (plural)
phrenzy (alternative)
phrensy (alternative)
more frenzy (comparative)
most frenzy (superlative)
frenzies (present, singular)
frenzying (participle, present)
frenzied (participle, past)
frenzied (past)