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Definition of Dizzying
1. Adjective. Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused, as of great speed or height. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of dizzy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dizzying
1. dizzy [v] - See also: dizzy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dizzying
Literary usage of Dizzying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"broods over the ground; fuliginous vapours float; the air curls round and round,
in dizzying waves ; wreaths of smoke entwine us; we hardly know where we ..."
2. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... by various dizzying tricks of scale. There were the player homes tucked ...
and perhaps most dizzying of all, there was the Earth itself, ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1899)
"Then it is that he, free once more, leaps down—falls from the dizzying height,
the multitude thinks—leaps down into the seat, and wins liberty. ..."
4. Studies in English by Carolyn M. Robbins (1916)
"Confounding, astounding, dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound. ***#***###
Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting, Delaying and straying ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English; with Numerous by William Owen Pughe (1832)
"(serf) Whirling ; dizzying. im (serf ) A startling ; a dizzying. a. (serf) To
startle ; to dizzy. .(serf) Dependent; ready to fall, ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"In a dizzying manner; so as to cause giddiness or vertigo. ... Adapted to cause
or to suggest giddiness; of a dizzy or dizzying nature ; acting or causing ..."
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