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vertigo
/ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/
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VUR-tih-goh: begin with a stressed, r-colored vowel.
The g is hard, as in “go.” The final o remains a full oh sound even though it does not carry the main stress.
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“The novel opens with the narrator describing a moment of vertigo.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does vertigo mean?
noun
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
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noun
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
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/ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/
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To dream that you have vertigo, foretells you will have loss in domestic happiness, and your affairs will be under gloomy outlooks.
But he had not long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may be designated as the call of the abyss.
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Meniere's disease is a disease probably of the semicircular canals, characterized by nausea, vomiting, vertigo, deafness, tinnitus aurium, and various other phenomena.
Weak pulse, general weakness, vertigo, loss of consciousness and death may result if one-third of the total quantity of blood is lost.