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fran·tic  (frntk)
adj.
1. Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry.
2. Characterized by rapid and disordered or nervous activity: made a frantic last-minute search for the lost key.
3. Archaic Mad; insane.
[Middle English frantik, from Old French frenetique, from Latin phrenticus; see frenetic.]
franti·cal·ly, frantic·ly adv.
frantic·ness n.
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Adv.1.frantically - in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly"
madly
Translations
frantically [ˈfræntɪkəlɪ] ADV → frenéticamente, con frenesí
frantically [ˈfræntɪkəli] adv [rush, search] → frénétiquement
frantically
adv
(= desperately) try, search → verzweifelt
(= hectically) work, run around → hektisch; wave, scribble, scramble, run → wie wild; she is frantically busy → sie hat wahnsinnig viel zu tun (inf)
frantically [ˈfræntɪk/əlɪ] adv (gen) → freneticamente, affannosamente
frantically [ˈfræntɪk/əlɪ] adv (gen) → freneticamente, affannosamente


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A DISHONEST Gain was driving in its luxurious carriage through its private park, when it saw something which frantically and repeatedly ran against a stone wall, endeavouring to butt out its brains.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Polly was looking sorrowfully at a rent in her pretty gauze gown, and Button-Bright's fox head had stuck fast in a gopher hole and he was wiggling his little fat legs frantically in an effort to get free.
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But in the corridor there was no sign of the person he was looking for and he came back in despair, and frantically waving his hands addressed Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was smoking serenely.
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