Difference between Afraid and Panic Stricken

AFRAID vs PANIC STRICKEN: ADJECTIVE

Filled with fear or apprehension
Regretful, sorry
Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement.
Filled with fear; frightened.
Feeling worry or concern or insecurity
Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness

Filled with regret or concern
Synonyms Afraid, Frightened, Terrified, timid, shy, apprehensive, troubled, suspicious, distrustful. Afraid expresses a less degree of fear than frightened or terrified, which describe outward states. In colloquial language, I am afraid is often nearly equivalent to I suspect, I am inclined to think, or the like, and is regularly used as a kind of polite introduction to a correction, objection, etc., or to make a statement sound less positive: as, I am afraid you are wrong; I am afraid that argument won't hold.
Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful: followed by of before the object of fear, where that is not an infinitive: as, to be afraid of death; I am afraid to go.

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Scare, Panic stricken, Panicked, Panic struck, Anxiety, Frighten, Frenzied, Flies, Alarmed, Fly, Planet stricken, Afraid, Panicky, Stampede, Scared

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Awful, Appalled, Terror, Scare, Panicked, Panic struck, Panic stricken, Frighten, Frenzied, Anxiety, Fly, Alarmed, Afraid, Panicky, Scared

It might have been when you were afraid of commitment, or even when you were afraid of being vulnerable.
He describes being Queer and growing up afraid of being outed, afraid of being close to other Queer teens.
The ghost or the zombie never frightened us who were not afraid, but they will run after them who were too afraid.
Milla is afraid of her: has always been afraid of her.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Once again she admitted to herself that she was afraid, horribly afraid, of the beautiful woman with the cruel eyes.
Communism is everywhere and when you try to see it, you might start to get afraid, very afraid.
Be afraid, America, be very afraid not so much of ISIS, but of the Emory college students.
No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must he be afraid of God.
So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.

Probably the prisoners were so panic stricken by the earthquake that they did not rally to the possibility of escape before the jailor awoke.
They caused less damage than some panic-stricken residents had feared, but they did remind them that large numbers of Argentines are desperately poor.
Snorting, panic stricken buffalo were running as if their life depended on it, and for one young buffalo it did.
And there was a bunch of panic-stricken women, who swore they saw men surrounded in flames walk up and down the streets.
The people were panic stricken; old men and women traversed the streets wringing their hands, not knowing which way to turn for safety.
What with the panic-stricken MDC-Alliance behaving like a headless chicken trying to make up for its five-year absentee politician stu.
And the CSU has obviously decided to act panic-stricken.
Panic stricken in Paris at Charles de Gaulle Airpo.
The film was also known as Panic Stricken.