Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a frantic or furious manner; madly; wildly.
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- adverb In a
frantic way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an uncontrolled manner
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Examples
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I repeated the word frantically as motivation to keep my head and not succumb to panic.
Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010
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I repeated the word frantically as motivation to keep my head and not succumb to panic.
Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010
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However, "Smile" finally started talking to me this morning, which is encouraging, even if it's really just my brain frantically trying to stop me from working on the novel.
i do my best but i am made of mistakes matociquala 2009
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My brain frantically, manically searched for a way of escape.
ProWomanProLife » Getting rid of Down Syndrome children 2009
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I called frantically, halting them in their tracks.
Christmas Magic Jack Canfield 2010
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The trouble is your brain frantically scans up and down the columns for the numbers and forgets to look laterally for completed rows, I could feel bits of my cerebral hemispheres creaking undone like screwed up newspaper and the tension was indescribable.
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The trouble is your brain frantically scans up and down the columns for the numbers and forgets to look laterally for completed rows, I could feel bits of my cerebral hemispheres creaking undone like screwed up newspaper and the tension was indescribable.
Eyes down 2008
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The trouble is your brain frantically scans up and down the columns for the numbers and forgets to look laterally for completed rows, I could feel bits of my cerebral hemispheres creaking undone like screwed up newspaper and the tension was indescribable.
Eyes down 2008
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I was never jealous of her relationship with a guy who almost broke my hand when he shook it, or when she called frantically to tell me that she had caught him jerking off in her bed and I just stop.
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But Giulani has joined with Bush in frantically lying to the American people to cover up the past acts that provoked Sept 11.
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