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adj. - Excessively agitated.

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Usage examples (16)
  • I long for the days of phrenetic brass sections and theremins and moogs.
  • Then her father jerked in a phrenetic dance, until he stripped the suit and ran.
  • This was very new; it was also very strange what a fascination he found in his phrenetic exercises.
  • Cases have been known of a native sentinel having been left at his post for a little over that regulation time, and to have become phrenetic, under the impression that...
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