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Dizzy   /dˈɪzi/   Listen
Dizzy

adjective
(compar. dizzier; superl. dizziest)
1.
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling.  Synonyms: giddy, vertiginous, woozy.  "A dizzy pinnacle" , "Had a headache and felt giddy" , "A giddy precipice" , "Feeling woozy from the blow on his head" , "A vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
2.
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.  Synonyms: airheaded, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly.  "Light-headed teenagers" , "Silly giggles"
verb
(past & past part. dizzied; pres. part. dizzying)
1.
Make dizzy or giddy.



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"Dizzy" Quotes from Famous Books



... me levelly as I struggled upright, fighting off the dizzy sickness of disgust. Something about her impassive face stopped me cold. I had been, momentarily, raging with fury and humiliation. Now I realized that this had been a calculated, careful gesture to make me lose my temper and thus ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... fountain made Joan dizzy as she listened to Raymond—"I wonder, now since I'm to stay in town, if you'd let me bring my car in? We'd have some great old rides. We'd cool off and have picnics by roadsides and—and get the best of ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... walking round the Island, compassing the Shore, and going round the utmost Bounds of it; sometimes walking or running a great many times round about his House or some Stone, at other times turning himself round so often that he was dizzy. ...
— The Improvement of Human Reason - Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan • Ibn Tufail

... the distance rightly, for after I had walked a mile I could see no dwelling. The morning was breaking now, and the world looked pallid and dreary. Suddenly my strength failed, I felt faint and dizzy, and sat down upon a heap of stones, drawing my cloak over my face. My thoughts became broken and confused, and my senses numb, I remained, lost in a sort of stupid dream of trouble, I do not know how long, when the touch of a hand on my shoulder ...
— The Late Miss Hollingford • Rosa Mulholland

... beginning the men complained of headaches and one by one they crawled up the ladder again for fresh air. Others were sent down but at the end of an hour they too retreated. Dan and I stuck it out for a while. Then I began to get dizzy myself. I didn't know what the trouble was but when I began to wobble a bit Dan placed his ...
— One Way Out - A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America • William Carleton


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