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Meanings of vertiginous in английском

Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling.

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Usage of vertiginous in английском
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But the most vertiginous rise has come over the past three deals.
The Guardian
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His rise to fame was as vertiginous as his fall and decay.
Mademoiselle Fifi
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The tiered seats dropped away towards the pitch in a vertiginous slope.
Pack animals
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The pool dumps over the edge to become the vertiginous Fautaua Falls.
BBC
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And after this, who would dare suggest his vertiginous ascent is slowing?
The Guardian
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Her cheekbones were vertiginous, her nose aquiline, her mouth a lurid gash.
The new yorker
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Our children have a vertiginous glimpse of their place in history.
The Guardian
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But neither was enough to explain the vertiginous 1929-style plunge in share prices.
The Irish Times
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Instead, Sawyer came to chart the vertiginous growth of the industry.
The Guardian
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We could be talking about his vertiginous vaults or deadly slapshot right now.
The Guardian
11
Being this close to so much power is a vertiginous sensation.
Soon I will be invincible
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A few kilometres up vertiginous, winding roads and we had travelled back centuries.
The Guardian
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Tatum resumed his backward march, staring wide-eyed into the vertiginous blizzard.
Genellan: planetfall
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She is still weak, and still vertiginous from the caterpillar's venom.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
15
The vertiginous lawn seemed to engulf him as he stood in its emptiness.
The secret river
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She'd not ventured this close before, and its proximity was vertiginous.
Imajica: Complete Edition
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