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vertiginate

adj · verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Turned around; giddy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To turn around and around; to whirl.

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Examples

  • c. 1810-1834?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Sherlock Yes; you'll say, that there should be three Persons, each of which is God, and yet but one God, is a contradiction: but what principle of natural reason does it contradict? Surely never did argument vertiginate more!

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