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Answer for the clue "Causing lightheadedness ", 8 letters:
dizzying

Word definitions for dizzying in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dizzy \Diz"zy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dizzied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dizzying .] To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding. --Sir W. Scott.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused, as of great speed or height. v (present participle of dizzy English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The view from Cyril's restaurant is dizzying . ▪ Voters will choose from a dizzying number of parties. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And it's not just the dizzying development and the smell of money that pervades the downtown ...

Usage examples of dizzying.

She felt like she could taste Cord on her tongue, feel him, know the dizzying thrill of his sensuality pouring over her.

A single gesture sent the men outside, leaving Raine alone with her father and the dizzying feeling that minutes rather than hours had passed.

It was like seeing a reflection of her own soul – dizzying, confusing, almost terrifying, for Catlin was very much unlike anyone she had ever known, especially herself.

The sensation was dizzying, making it almost impossible for her to draw a complete breath.

The feeling of relief was almost dizzying, telling her how much she had feared that she would never be able to make her husband smile again.

There were several dizzying times when he came close to passing out before he finally saw the big, decaying house.

The stag was a nice piece, indeed very fine, but the designs were so intricate that they were dizzying to the modern eye.

But as the verbeeg's hands came down, the form it had thought to be a log exploded into movement as the fifty-foot water constrictor threw itself around its prey with dizzying speed.

In the wave of dizzying darkness that fast descended upon it, it was too busy merely holding to its stubborn balance.

The hounds were far behind, but her knees went weak as the unearthly sound descended upon her, echoing from wall to wall and encasing her in a dizzying jumble.

The dragon rolled over in blinded rage, lost in a dizzying swirl of pain, headlong into a jutting portion of the wall.

It cut through the feeble protection of the candle wax with bone-shivering intensity, sapping into Drizzt's and Wulfgar's strength and dropping a dizzying blackness over them.

He battled against the dizzying blur and the stinging pain in his head and tried to focus on the firelight.

He lifted his palms, as if to say, "You caught me," but then jerked into a dizzying maneuver, pulling several small ceramic globes out of one of his robe's many pockets.

Alton spat, stumbling his way down through the dizzying blur to the door that led to the Face less One's entry hall, the lowest room of the master's quar ters.