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dizzy

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"Dizzy" is a song by the Goo Goo Dolls , written by lead vocalist and guitarist Johnny Rzeznik . It was released as a single from their sixth studio album, Dizzy Up The Girl . The song peaked at #9 on Billboard 's Modern Rock Tracks chart on January 5, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a dizzy/fainting spell (= one when you feel unable to stand steadily and your head feels unclear ) ▪ She must have had a dizzy spell and fallen. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN height ▪ Expectation had been rampant ...

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.

Usage examples of dizzy.

He had given the name of Stanley Adams, and had had such a queerly thick droning voice, that it made the clerk abnormally dizzy and sleepy to listen to him.

She tried to ignore the dizzying perspective plucking at her peripheral vision over the low sides of the pod and concentrated instead on the stress and acceleration vectors graphically represented on her screen.

He kept the aerator as low as possible, to make himself breathe great gasps that hurt his chest, but it made him dizzy, and he had to increase the oxygenation lest he faint.

Those two and Mertyn had great deeds aflight, and all the coming and going in pursuit of them was dizzying.

He tried to move to the aft end of the room but immediately felt tired and dizzy.

As the dizzying spectacle flowed by, Alec recalled with horror his original plan to bring Seregil through Rhiminee alone.

Twice each day, the hydrobot returned from its journey to inner space and delivered its real treasure: one-hundred-milliliter aliquots of ice containing a dizzying menagerie of microscopic life never before seen.

Then I felt dizzy, trying to hold myself on all fours, and sick to my stomach.

Suddenly dizzy, Amy lowered her hands to the sides of her chair and held on tightly.

Lucksparrow had that it was fortunate another member of the profession should be at hand, and by the success with which the Archdeacon, dizzy and yet equable, concealed his own feelings when his visitor, chatting of Prayer Book Revision, parish councils, and Tithe Acts, imported to them a high eternal flavour which savoured of Deity Itself.

Accordingly Barnaby, seeing that it was required of him to quit the place in which he then lay, arose, though with a good deal of effort, and permitted the negro to help him on with his coat, though feeling mightily dizzy and much put about to keep upon his legs--his head beating fit to split asunder and the vessel rolling and pitching at a great rate, as though upon a heavy cross-sea.

The first time he had entered the place Bibbs had become dizzy instantly, and six months of it had only added increasing nausea to faintness.

After winding through a dizzying series of turns and twists he stepped into a cozier milieu where child whores of both sexes dressed in filmy short robes displayed themselves to men with a shared patina of wealth and power.

In the shadows of Denver Sam had heard about Dizzy Dancey, and none of it had been comforting.

In the dizzying energy of the dreamlink, she could sense that the link between Dap and herself was straining, like a fabric being pulled, stretched, torn.