panic attack

1. 1.

   a sudden attack of fear

   Synonymsscare

   Broaderfear

Questions about panic attack

What does panic attack mean?

panic attack means "a sudden attack of fear".

What is another word for panic attack?

Close synonyms include scare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is panic attack a common word?

panic attack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.