If you get vertigo when you look down from a high place, you feel unsteady and sick.
If you have vertigo it seems as if the whole room is spinning round you.
He had a dreadful attack of vertigo.
Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, light-headedness, fear of heights More Synonyms of vertigo
vertigo in British English
(ˈvɜːtɪˌɡəʊ)
nounWord forms: pluralvertigoes or vertigines (vɜːˈtɪdʒɪˌniːz)
pathology
a sensation of dizziness or abnormal motion resulting from a disorder of the sense of balance
Word origin
C16: from Latin: a whirling round, from vertere to turn
vertigo in American English
(ˈvɜrtɪˌgoʊ)
nounWord forms: pluralˈvertiˌgoes or verˈtigiˌnes (vərˈtɪdʒəˌniz)
Medicine
a condition in which one has the feeling of whirling or of having the surroundings whirling about one, so that one tends to lose one's balance; dizziness
Word origin
L, dizziness < vertere: see verse
Examples of 'vertigo' in a sentence
vertigo
QMY mother has suffered for a long time with vertigo and dizziness.
The Sun (2016)
Hence the dizziness, like vertigo.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The thought of making it still better is an idea so extreme that it induces vertigo.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This is not the place to discover that you suffer from vertigo.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Not bad for a bloke who claims to suffer from vertigo.
The Sun (2007)
Do not stay at this hotel if you suffer from vertigo.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Anyone who suffers from vertigo should avoid this programme like the plague.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Sufferers of vertigo should approach this B-movie heist thriller with caution.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We heard that house price rises in London and elsewhere are dizzying enough to induce vertigo.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Not one for vertigo sufferers, then.
The Sun (2016)
Oh, and he also suffers from vertigo.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Not for the faint-hearted or those who suffer from vertigo.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Vertigo sufferers should look away now, or at least hold on to the edge of the sofa.
The Sun (2008)
I said then that we had an attack of vertigo.
The Sun (2006)
Hence the dizziness, the vertigo.
Hebblethwaite, Peter Paul VI - The First Modern Pope (1993)
In that case, you're suffering an attack of vertigo.
The Sun (2009)
Up on the moral high ground, it seems, they get vertigo when the results do not go their way.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In other languages
vertigo
British English: vertigo /ˈvɜːtɪˌɡəʊ/ NOUN
If you get vertigo when you look down from a high place, you feel unsteady and sick.
If you have vertigo, it seems as if the whole room is spinning round you.
American English: vertigo
Arabic: دُوَار
Brazilian Portuguese: vertigem
Chinese: 眩晕
Croatian: strah od visine
Czech: závrať
Danish: svimmelhed
Dutch: duizeligheid
European Spanish: vértigo
Finnish: huimaus
French: vertige
German: Schwindel
Greek: ίλιγγος
Italian: vertigine
Japanese: めまい
Korean: 현기증
Norwegian: vertigo
Polish: zawroty głowy
European Portuguese: vertigem
Romanian: amețeală
Russian: головокружение
Latin American Spanish: vértigo
Swedish: höjdskräck
Thai: อาการเวียนศีรษะทำให้ทรงตัวลำบาก
Turkish: yükseklik korkusu
Ukrainian: запаморочення
Vietnamese: sự chóng mặt
Chinese translation of 'vertigo'
vertigo
(ˈvəːtɪɡəu)
n(u)
眩晕(暈) (xuànyūn)
⇒ I get vertigo.我会感到眩晕。 (Wǒ huì gǎndào xuànyūn.)
(noun)
Definition
a sensation of dizziness felt because one's balance is disturbed, sometimes experienced when looking down from a high place
He had a dreadful attack of vertigo at the top of the tower.