What is the meaning of vertiginous?

adjective

  • Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling.
    • usage: "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
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