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Vertiginous   Listen
adjective
Vertiginous  adj.  
1.
Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion. "Some vertiginous whirl of fortune."
2.
Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. "They (the angels) grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven."





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"Vertiginous" Quotes from Famous Books



... story of Washington Square. Covering the entire period of the city's history, passing through startling changes and transformations, the scene of great happenings, the background of illustrious or curious lives,—it is probably more typical of the vertiginous development of New York than any single section. The Indians, the Dutch, the English, the Colonials, the Revolutionists, the New Americans, the shining lights of art, science, fashion and the state, have all passed through it, ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin


Words linked to "Vertiginous" :   sick, giddy, woozy, vertigo


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