grate vs panic

grate

verb
  • To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy. 

  • To annoy. 

  • To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater. 

  • To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something. 

  • To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars. 

noun
  • A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot. 

  • A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. 

  • A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip. 

panic

verb
  • To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily. 

  • To cause (a computer system) to crash. 

  • To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head. 

  • Of a computer system: to crash. 

  • To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show). 

adj
  • Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright. 

  • Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden. 

noun
  • Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet. 

  • Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare. 

  • A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline. 

  • A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass. 

  • The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants. 

  • A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream. 

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