vertigo
noun
a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
vertigoes
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pluralof vertigo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then had come vertigoes and strange, inexplicable qualms, as if he were in an elevator that sank under him with terrifying rapidity.
From The Pit by Frank Norris
Before returning to a consciousness of his existence he experiences vertigoes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various
Soon after that early period he became subject to vertigoes, which he thought indicative of a tendency to apoplexy; and was occasionally bled rather profusely, which only increased the symptoms.
From English Men of Letters: Crabbe by Alfred Ainger
The "inspissated gloom" of his work, its tenebrous gulfs and musical vertigoes are true indices of his morbid pathology.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
