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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
Example:
a frenzied look in his eye
Synonyms:
frantic; frenetic; frenzied; phrenetic
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason
Example:
outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity
Synonyms:
frenzied; manic
Classified under:
Similar:
wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)
Context examples:
As it sank he became less and less frenzied; and just as it dipped he slid from the hands that held him, an inert mass, on the floor.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Sir Lothian’s hollow cheeks grew white with passion, and I saw for an instant in his deep-set eyes such a glare as comes from the frenzied hound rearing and ramping at the end of its chain.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Alleyne, all unnerved at so strange and unwonted a sight, shrunk up against the wall with his eyes fixed upon the frenzied creature, which came bounding along with ungainly speed, looking the larger in the uncertain light, its huge jaws agape, with blood and slaver trickling to the ground.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Be that as it might, I seemed to see that woman’s figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover’s life out.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
