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Definition

a dizzy sensation or a feeling that you are about to fall

There is also a famous Alfred Hitchcock film named Vertigo.

I felt a sense of vertigo as I looked over the ledge.

She suffers vertigo from an inner ear infection.
He took a deep breath, fighting a wave of vertigo, afraid even to glance at Norah.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter

vertigo = a dizzy sensation

She remembered that long-ago day on the beach, the glinting water and the silverfish of vertigo and Howard walking into her line of vision.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
A curtain flashed in a lower window—Lucy Martin, spying as usual—and Caroline paused, overcome for an instant by something like vertigo.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
In the dappled sunlight, Paul's hand reached for her hair, and David felt a sense of panic, almost vertigo, at all he didn't know; at all he knew and couldn't mend.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The moment of vertigo passed, as a small black man came up the steps and across the porch wearing heeltaps on his shoes.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
They pressed him forward, down the stairs, and when he reached the platform he felt a twinge of vertigo as they steered him too close to the tracks.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
The vertigo as I approached the bed, the trepidation.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
"Please don't let me fall," she says to an executioner, getting vertigo as she looks down on the crowd from atop the tall, unstable gallows.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
A short distance to my left I saw a vertigo-inducing sea of shacks, rolling out as far as the eye could see.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
Some days, when she walked, she would feel tipsy, swaying side to side, needing to rest against walls as if struck by vertigo.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
The view induces the opposite of vertigo, a lurching feeling inspired not by gravity's pull to earth, but by the infinite reaches of heaven.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
But he felt no more vertigo than one does in an aeroplane, for there was no sense of contact with the distant ground.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
I feel, in passing, a kind of vertigo.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Either he shut his eyes or he had vertigo.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
A shudder ran up the mast, jarring Roran's teeth, and the crow's nest swung in the new direction, making him giddy with vertigo.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
You can flit back and forth between these perceptions and experience a sort of mental vertigo.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
The world seemed to tilt around Eragon; the sensation of vertigo was so intense, he had to grab the edge of the table to steady himself.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

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