sudden, overwhelming fear or anxiety

• mass fright that spreads quickly through a group

to feel sudden, overwhelming fear

• to lose self-control from fright

to cause someone to feel panic

• to alarm someone into hasty action

a kernel panic or unrecoverable system crash

• any catastrophic failure causing an immediate halt

rapid market selling driven by fear

• a sharp, broad drop in asset prices

sudden and overwhelming from fear

• relating to or caused by panic

of a computer system: to crash with a kernel panic

• to halt due to a critical internal error