giddying

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of giddy

comparative more giddying · superlative most giddying

1. Causing giddiness.

   I reached for the thick hanging vines and swung in a broad arc, rising high until I faced the giddying sky;

   2005, Tash Aw, chapter 3, in The Harmony Silk Factory

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   Whilst the youngster’s ambition by soaring too high, / And daring to Phœbus to venture too nigh, / From the giddying height came tumbling full fast, / Till the waves of the sea entomb’d him at last.

   1805, John Wilson Croker, The History of Cutchacutchoo, page 31

   the sort […] that creeps into the maiden heart like the giddying worm into the sheep’s brain—making crooked seem straight to their eyes

   1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 4, in The Mayor of Casterbridge, volume 2, page 53

   Nor from that day to this, through all my giddying “ups” and sobering “downs” have I ever for a moment regretted my decision—

   1921, Walter de la Mare, chapter 5, in Memoirs of a Midget, pages 53-54