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dizzying

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diz·zy  (dz)
adj. diz·zi·er, diz·zi·est
1. Having a whirling sensation and a tendency to fall. See Synonyms at giddy.
2. Bewildered or confused.
3.
a. Producing or tending to produce giddiness: a dizzy height.
b. Caused by giddiness; reeling.
4. Characterized by impulsive haste; very rapid: "The American language had begun its dizzy onward march before the Revolution" (H.L. Mencken).
5. Slang Scatterbrained or silly.
tr.v. diz·zied, diz·zy·ing, diz·zies
1. To make dizzy.
2. To confuse or bewilder.
[Middle English dusie, disi, from Old English dysig, foolish.]
dizzi·ly adv.
dizzi·ness n.
dizzy·ing·ly adv.
Translations
dizzying [ˈdɪziɪŋ] adj [speed] → vertigineux/euse, étourdissant(e); [heights, number] → vertigineux/euse


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At such moments, starting from a windward roll, I would go flying through the air with dizzying swiftness, as though I clung to the end of a huge, inverted pendulum, the arc of which, between the greater rolls, must have been seventy feet or more.
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