dizzy
part of speech
adjective (dizzy, dizzier, dizziest)
meaning for a pupil
1) Dizzy means feeling as if everything is spinning and you might fall over. tree →
2) Dizzy can describe something that makes you feel that way: dizzy heights. tree →
3) Informally, a dizzy person is silly or forgetful. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health and safety lessons: you can feel dizzy after spinning, standing up fast, being too hot, not drinking enough water or hitting your head; sit down, drink water and tell an adult, and get help after a head bump. In science, the fluid in your inner ear keeps spinning after you stop, which makes you dizzy. Phrases: feel dizzy, dizzy spell, dizzy with excitement.
examples
- I spun round and round until I felt dizzy. tree →
- If you feel dizzy, sit down at once. tree →
- Standing up too fast made her dizzy. tree →
- The heat made me feel dizzy, so I drank some water. tree →
- Looking down from the tower made him dizzy. tree →
- Tell an adult if you feel dizzy after bumping your head. tree →
- She was dizzy with excitement on her birthday. tree →
- Spinning rides make me dizzy. tree →
- Soon he became dizzy and faint. tree →
note
Spelled with zz. Comparative: dizzier, dizziest. Noun: dizziness. Feeling dizzy often and for no reason is a reason to see a doctor.
In the corpora
- Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.
- Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards.
- A girl in England picked foxglove flowers and licked her fingers; she felt sick and dizzy and needed hospital treatment.
- Heat exhaustion can make you dizzy, sick, very tired and give you a headache.
- A boy in England skipped breakfast every day; by mid-morning he felt dizzy and grumpy, and once he fainted in PE.
Trees and pragmatics
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