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English Dictionary: vertiginous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vertiginous
adj
  1. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "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"
    Synonym(s): dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vertiginous \Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a
      whirling around, giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See
      {Vertig[?][?]}.]
      1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as,
            vertiginous motion.
  
                     Some vertiginous whirl of fortune.      --De Quincey.
  
      2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
  
                     They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from
                     the battlements of heaven.                  --Jer. Taylor.
            -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ness}, n.
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