Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - frenzy
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I. noun (plural frenzies) Etymology: Middle English frenesie, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin phrenesia, alteration of Latin phrenesis, from phreneticus Date: 14th century 1. a. a temporary madness b. a violent mental or emotional agitation 2. intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity a shopping ~ II. transitive verb (frenzied; ~ing) Date: 1791 to affect with ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 mental derangement; wild excitement or agitation. 2 delirious fury. --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. as frenzied adj.) drive to frenzy; infuriate. Derivatives frenziedly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF frenesie f. med.L phrenesia f. L phrenesis f. Gk phren mind ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n 1 a state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion (religious frenzies | in a frenzy) (She pleaded with them in a frenzy to release her son. | a frenzy of passion/remorse etc) (They fell into a frenzy of helpless alarm at the news.) 2 a frenzy of preparation/activity etc a period of sudden energetic activity (The house was in a frenzy of activity as my aunts prepared for the wedding.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- late 14c., from O.Fr. frenesie, from M.L. phrenesia, from phrenesis, back-formation of L. phreneticus "delirious" (see frenetic). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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