Vocabulary Word
Word: frenzied
Definition: madly excited; N. frenzy: violent wild excitement
Definition: madly excited; N. frenzy: violent wild excitement
Sentences Containing 'frenzied'
One of the frenzied aspirations of the populace was, for imitations of the questionable public virtues of antiquity, and for sacrifices and self immolations on the people's altar.
And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the whale dallied with the doomed craft in this devilish way; and from his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
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::: isotope - varying from of an element
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::: flaunt - display ostentatiously; Ex. ``Honey, if you've got it, flaunt it !''
