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Definition
a dizzy sensation or a feeling that you are about to fall
- He took a deep breath, fighting a wave of vertigo, afraid even to glance at Norah.p. 109.3
vertigo = a dizzy sensation
- A curtain flashed in a lower window—Lucy Martin, spying as usual—and Caroline paused, overcome for an instant by something like vertigo.p. 56.8
- 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.p. 122.5
- 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.p. 373.4
There are no more uses of "vertigo" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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