• IPA: /ˈfɹɛnzi/

frenzy

1. A state of wild activity or panic.

   She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.

2. A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 2, scene 1]:

     All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

   • 1595-1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, scene 1:

     The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

• frantic
• frenetic
• frenzied

• French: frénésie
• German: Wahn, Rausch, Wut
• Italian: frenesia
• Portuguese: frenesi
• Russian: неи́стовство
• Spanish: frenesí, manía

frenzy

1. (obsolete) Mad; frantic.
   • 1678 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress:

     They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

frenzy (frenzies, present participle frenzying; past and past participle frenzied)

1. (uncommon) To render frantic.

   • Both goaded on to strife by frenzying hate.

     Then there is the absorbing, not to say frenzying, interest, which attends our important elections.

2. (rare) To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.

   • The fresh smell of salt air, the sound of the crashing swell, the soothing immersion in the water, the sight of dolphins playing and fish frenzying beneath my board.