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vertiginate

vertiginate adjective: turned around; giddy.

Adjective

vertiginate (comparative more vertiginate, superlative most vertiginate)

  1. Turned around; giddy.

Verb

vertiginate (third-person singular simple present vertiginates, present participle vertiginating, simple past and past participle vertiginated)

  1. To turn around and around; to whirl.
    • c. 1810-1834?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Sherlock
      Yes; you'll say, that there should be three Persons, each of which is God, and yet but one God, is a contradiction: but what principle of natural reason does it contradict? Surely never did argument vertiginate more!

Forms of vertiginate

Adjective
comparativemore vertiginate
superlativemost vertiginate
Verb
third-person singular presentvertiginates
present participlevertiginating
past participlevertiginated
pastvertiginated

Questions about vertiginate

What does vertiginate mean?
Vertiginate means turned around; giddy.
What part of speech is vertiginate?
Vertiginate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near vertiginate in the dictionary

  1. verticutter
  2. verticutters
  3. verticutting
  4. verticuttings
  5. Vertie
  6. vertiginate
  7. vertiginated
  8. vertiginates
  9. vertiginating
  10. vertiginid
  11. vertiginids

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