dizzy

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Old English dysiġ, probably related to West Frisian dize, (fog).

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dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)

  1. having a sensation of turning around; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
    I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
  2. producing giddiness
    We climbed to a dizzy height.
  3. empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
    My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

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Infinitive
to dizzy

Third person singular
dizzies

Simple past
dizzied

Past participle
dizzied

Present participle
dizzying

to dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)

  1. (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 161:
      Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature [...].