All 4 Uses of
vertigo
in
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.†
p. 56.8
- He took a deep breath, fighting a wave of vertigo, afraid even to glance at Norah.
p. 109.3 *vertigo = a dizzy sensation
- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(vertigo) a dizzy sensation or a feeling that you are about to fall
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
There is also a famous Alfred Hitchcock film named Vertigo.