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Dizzy   /dˈɪzi/   Listen
adjective
Dizzy  adj.  (compar. dizzier; superl. dizziest)  
1.
Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. "Alas! his brain was dizzy."
2.
Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. "To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder."
3.
Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. "The dizzy multitude."



verb
Dizzy  v. t.  (past & past part. dizzied; pres. part. dizzying)  To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. "If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dizzy" Quotes from Famous Books



... words, Semitzin stepped across the threshold of the crypt, and vanished in its depths. The Indian, still dizzy and faint, knelt on the rock without, bowed ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne

... folded them and crowded the articles in his pockets. He stuffed in the doll and the rude playthings and hooked the basket doll-carriage upon his arm. She did not waken when he picked her up. He tiptoed down the stairs and nobody noticed him, In his own dizzy mind he could not determine whether he felt most like a thief or a lunatic. At any rate, he found himself walking the streets of the mill city at ten o'clock at night, carrying a little girl in his arms and all her earthly possessions ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day

... space of time she had come to the creek, and leapt into the boat, panting and breathless. She turned and looked hastily along the path her feet had just worn, and deemed she saw a fluttering and flashing coming along it, but some way off; yet was not sure, for her eyes were dizzy with the swiftness of her flight and the hot sun and the hurry of her heart. Then she looked about a moment confusedly, for she called to mind that in her nakedness she had neither knife, nor scissors, nor bodkin to let her blood withal. But even therewith ...
— The Water of the Wondrous Isles • William Morris

... shade were filling quickly; soon the whole mass of dizzy circles, one above the other, flamed with brilliant colour under the ...
— Five Nights • Victoria Cross

... of the car—of the floor and ceiling and walls. But there was not a loose plank nor a crack—the car was new. And that suggested another idea—that he might suffocate before he starved. He was beginning to feel weak and dizzy. ...
— Samuel the Seeker • Upton Sinclair


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