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Meanings of vertiginous in английском

Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling.

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Examples for "dizzy"
Examples for "dizzy"
1
I know nothing about it; the sight of weapons makes me dizzy.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
2
He ate it on the way home and felt drugged and dizzy.
The new yorker
3
I watched her poising herself on the ledge; it made me dizzy.
Aylwin
4
All of the dizzy good humor had gone out of the evening.
The stand
5
She'd be dizzy soon from lack of oxygen and that was good.
Exit wound
1
When she saw Olivia's response, Valya felt a giddy sense of power.
Mentats of Dune
2
In the final chapter, we're giddy with questions that require an answer.
The Guardian
3
It was actually quite exhilarating, in a giddy, terrifying sort of way.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
4
After he was shown out, I felt a giddy sense of hope.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
5
They weren't markedly gleeful or giddy, not happy in any obvious way.
The irresistible henry house
1
Four or five pints on, you're a bit on the woozy side.
The Irish Times
2
When I'd seen Ethan standing over me, I'd felt woozy and vulnerable.
Never Have I Ever
3
Stand by for flash-backs - and not just the occasional woozy memory.
Radio NZ
4
Huck, still woozy from his plane ride, took a cautious step out.
Huck: the remarkable true story of how one lost puppy taught a f...
5
Was it worth all those hours of molasses-like conversations in woozy bars?
Wired
Usage of vertiginous in английском
1
But the most vertiginous rise has come over the past three deals.
The Guardian
2
His rise to fame was as vertiginous as his fall and decay.
Mademoiselle Fifi
3
The tiered seats dropped away towards the pitch in a vertiginous slope.
Pack animals
4
The pool dumps over the edge to become the vertiginous Fautaua Falls.
BBC
5
And after this, who would dare suggest his vertiginous ascent is slowing?
The Guardian
6
Her cheekbones were vertiginous, her nose aquiline, her mouth a lurid gash.
The new yorker
7
Our children have a vertiginous glimpse of their place in history.
The Guardian
8
But neither was enough to explain the vertiginous 1929-style plunge in share prices.
The Irish Times
9
Instead, Sawyer came to chart the vertiginous growth of the industry.
The Guardian
10
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
12
A few kilometres up vertiginous, winding roads and we had travelled back centuries.
The Guardian
13
Tatum resumed his backward march, staring wide-eyed into the vertiginous blizzard.
Genellan: planetfall
14
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
16
She'd not ventured this close before, and its proximity was vertiginous.
Imajica: Complete Edition
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