: feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance
frenzied dancing
frenziedly
adverb
Examples of frenzied in a Sentence
The screams of the fans grew more frenzied as the concert progressed.
the frenzied scene at the mall in the final week before Christmas
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Online sales haven’t been particularly frenzied either, though.
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Jonathan Kuminga, Buddy Hield and Pat Spencer helped key the frenzied 35-14 run.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
The most frenzied week of the winter is near.
—Katie Woo, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
There may be little incentive for the league to preserve affordable seating—which has the lowest return on investment—aside from the energy that pictures of frenzied fans in the sections behind the end zones add to the broadcast.
—John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Jonathan Kuminga, Buddy Hield and Pat Spencer helped key the frenzied 35-14 run.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
The most frenzied week of the winter is near.
—Katie Woo, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
There may be little incentive for the league to preserve affordable seating—which has the lowest return on investment—aside from the energy that pictures of frenzied fans in the sections behind the end zones add to the broadcast.
—John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for frenzied
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“Frenzied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frenzied. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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