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areel

areel adjective: reeling; spinning or moving unsteadily, especially from shock, surprise, or confusion.

Adjective

areel (comparative more areel, superlative most areel)

  1. Reeling; spinning or moving unsteadily, especially from shock, surprise, or confusion.
    • And when I turn aside in your garden, shunning your fierce black-and-scarlet petals to bring back my senses with English stocks and pansies, the sight of your Taj through the trees sends my brain areel again.1899, George Warrington Steevens, In India, page 140
    • I scrambled dizzily to my feet, my mind areel at being so suddenly transported from a dream-world of terror to an actuality scarcely less frightening.1954, Walter Karig, Don't Tread on Me, page 109

Forms of areel

comparativemore areel
superlativemost areel

Origin of areel

From a- + reel.

Questions about areel

What does areel mean?
Areel means reeling; spinning or moving unsteadily, especially from shock, surprise, or confusion.
What part of speech is areel?
Areel is an adjective.

Words near areel in the dictionary

  1. areding
  2. AREDYLD
  3. areed
  4. Areegra
  5. areek
  6. areel
  7. areet
  8. arefaction
  9. arefactions
  10. arefied
  11. arefies

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