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vertigo

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We manufacture unsettling situations that simulate danger and uncertainty, stimulating adrenaline release, accelerated heartbeat, hastened breathing, imbalance and vertigo—the proverbial rush.

The magic gone, I’d watch the mouth of whoever I was talking to open and close robotically, feeling a kind of mental vertigo.

A friend suffered a severe concussion after hitting a tree while skiing, and the resulting injury caused such intense vertigo that, for a long time, he could only walk down a hallway with his head sliding against the wall.

You once said that the bout with vertigo and nausea you had in the summer of 1968 was not an inappropriate response to that period.

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I was just wiped out, had a little bit of vertigo and had a headache, and I never have headaches.

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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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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vertigo, such as: disequilibrium, giddiness, lightheadedness, shakiness, unsteadiness, and loss of balance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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