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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



... her head which throbbed in a most peculiar way, making her dizzy and half blind as she went down to breakfast, which she took alone with Mrs. Tracy. Frank had eaten his long before, and was now pacing up and down the long piazza with his head bent forward and his ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes

... stone, she fancied that it trembled beneath her weight—then on the next, she was almost in the water. It was nothing but a strong sense of duty that made the poor child go on. With trembling steps and dizzy brain she proceeded on her dangerous way, and great was her relief when she reached in safety the ...
— The Crown of Success • Charlotte Maria Tucker

... hundred others, the fate of all that was dear to them on earth! How often, too, had their poor brains, racked and fired by doubt, fear and anguish, followed their child as he stood beside it, and grown dizzy as they watched him plunge his hand through its lid and tear open the little white slip which might be his sentence of slavery, his order of exile, or—O God! ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various

... from what's happened to me.... You'd better be wishin' yourself an early death! Because, even if a body dies to this world, they do say that he passes into rest. Then you don't have to live an' draw breath no more.—How did it go with little Kurt Flamm? I've clean forgot ... I'm dizzy ... I'm forgettin' ... I've forgotten everythin' ... life's that hard ... If I could only keep on feelin' this way ... an' never wake up again ...! What's the reason o' such things comin' to ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

... of upturned faces so terrified the poor child, that she felt faint and dizzy. She groped about with her hands, to find a seat, for she ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach


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