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vertigo
[ vur-ti-goh ]
noun
- a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
vertigo
/ ˈvɜːtɪˌɡəʊ /
noun
- pathol a sensation of dizziness or abnormal motion resulting from a disorder of the sense of balance
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Origin of vertigo1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vertigo1
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The vertigo your coastal sophisticate might get from perusing 1791.
When, in succession, he made Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).
To bolster my case I told him we should actually call it Pursuito, like Vertigo or Psycho.
Movie buffs have commented endlessly on the bell-tower sequence in Vertigo.
Hitchcock said that when Vertigo was finished, he took it to New York to screen it for the Paramount executives.
The sight made the head of the officer to swim, as if suddenly struck with vertigo.
These symptoms are vertigo, dimness of sight and hearing, pains in the head and nausea.
Care should be taken not to employ too strong currents, as otherwise vertigo and other unpleasant symptoms may be produced.
For a moment Ren had the slight vertigo of a man to whose intense passion is forbidden the relief of physical action.
More agreeable—not being subject to a sense of vertigo, which frequently (with me) followed the use of animal food.
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