: feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance
frenzied dancing
frenziedly
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The screams of the fans grew more frenzied as the concert progressed.
the frenzied scene at the mall in the final week before Christmas
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Elsewhere, Blumberg commissioned piano-string improvisations from Sophie Agnel, a synth-pop beat from Vince Clarke, and frenzied bebop jazz, played live on set by drummer Antonin Gerbal, double bassist Joel Grip, saxophonist Pierre Borel, and pianist Simon Sieger.
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2025
If nothing else, the film takes it on faith that the old storybook routines no longer apply, which helps explain why ‘Taxi Driver’ — with its frenzied masculine violence and febrile vision of the city as a landscape of fear and desire — hangs over this movie so heavily.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Hints of this kind of frenzied instability rubbed some of Trump’s crypto cronies the wrong way.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
Many of these companies — from Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Global — have sold themselves as the business has engaged in a period of frenzied consolidation that shows no signs of stopping.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2025
If nothing else, the film takes it on faith that the old storybook routines no longer apply, which helps explain why ‘Taxi Driver’ — with its frenzied masculine violence and febrile vision of the city as a landscape of fear and desire — hangs over this movie so heavily.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Hints of this kind of frenzied instability rubbed some of Trump’s crypto cronies the wrong way.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
Many of these companies — from Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Global — have sold themselves as the business has engaged in a period of frenzied consolidation that shows no signs of stopping.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Frenzied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frenzied. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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