Dizzy definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DIZZY, a. [G., dizziness; dizzy.] 1. Giddy; having a sensation of whirling in the head ... or proneness to fall; vertiginous. 2. Causing giddiness; as a dizzy highth. 3. Giddy; thoughtless; heedless; as the dizzy multitude. DIZZY, v.t. To whirl round; to make giddy; to ...
Dizzy Gillespie definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: United ... jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993) [syn: Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie]
... or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice ... a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous] 2: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light- headed, lightheaded, silly] Merriam Webster ... to Old English god god Date: 14th century 1. a. dizzy < giddy from the unaccustomed exercise > b. causing dizziness < a ...
... stop, to blunt, to stupefy.] 1. To make senseless or dizzy with a blow on the head; as, to be stunned ... fill their ears with wool. 3. To confound or make dizzy by loud and mingled sound. --An universal hubbub wild of ... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn ... astonish Date: 14th century 1. to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow ; daze 2. to ... as E. astonish. [root]168.] 1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on ... Synonyms v. a. 1. Make senseless (by a blow), make dizzy. 2. Stupefy, confound, bewilder, overcome, dizzy, dumfound, astonish, overwhelm, ...
... mist came swimming o'er his sight. 5. To be dizzy or vertiginous; to have a waving motion of the head ... swim] [ant: go down, go under, settle, sink] 3: be dizzy or giddy; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of ... to undulate or reel or whirl. 5 intr. have a dizzy effect or sensation (my head swam). 6 intr. (foll. by ... sw[=i]nan to dwindle. Cf. Squemish, Swindler.] To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head ... 4. Glide, skim. 5. Be flooded, be inundated. 6. Be dizzy (as the head). 7. Overflow, abound, have abundance. Moby Thesaurus ...
... or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice ... a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin vertiginosus ... whirl of fortune. --De Quincey. 2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements ... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Whirling, rotary, rotatory. 2. Dizzy, giddy.
... own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate] 5: fly around ... quickly < whirled down the hallway > 4. to become giddy or dizzy ; reel < my head is whirling > transitive verb 1. to drive ... with great speed; to gyrate. ``The whirling year vainly my dizzy eyes pursue.'' --J. H. Newman. The wooden engine flies and ... counterflow, counterflux, crack, crinkle, curl, curlicue, deflect, descend, disturbance, divert, dizzy round, drive, ebb, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, feery ... sweat, swim, swing, swing round, swirl, swirling, swivel, tendril, the dizzy rounds, the rounds, to-do, travel, try, tumult, turbulence, turmoil ...
Dizz definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DIZZ, v.t. [See Dizzy.] To astonish; to puzzle; to make dizzy. [Not used.] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dizz Dizz (d[i^]z), v. t. [See Dizzy.] To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle. [Obs.] --Gayton.
... or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice ... a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous] Merriam Webster's adjective (woozier; -est) Etymology ... wooziness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. (woozier, wooziest) colloq. 1 dizzy or unsteady. 2 dazed or slightly drunk. 3 vague. Derivatives ...
... own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate] 2: stream in ... ball). 6 intr. (of a person's head etc.) be dizzy through excitement, astonishment, etc. 7 tr. shape (metal) on a ... up, crank, crash, dap, derive, descend, devise, dib, dibble, dip, dizzy, dizzy round, drag out, draw out, drive, ebb, eddy, excursion, extend ...