vertigo

vértigo

Sensación de que tú o todo lo que te rodea da vueltas, lo que dificulta mantener el equilibrio.

En inglés sencillo: A feeling that you or everything around you is spinning, making it hard to keep your balance.

• She suffers from vertigo.
• An attack of vertigo made him sit down.
• His vertigo became worse whenever he stood up.

Sinónimos: dizziness

Expresiones frecuentes: suffer from vertigo, attack of vertigo, severe vertigo

vértigo, desorientación

Sensación de confusión e inquietud ante ideas, hechos o cambios que parecen demasiado difíciles de comprender.

En inglés sencillo: A confused, unsettled feeling caused by thoughts, events, or changes that seem too much to understand.

• The sudden freedom gave her a strange mental vertigo.
• He felt emotional vertigo as his familiar world disappeared.
• The endless possibilities produced a vertigo of the mind.

Sinónimos: disorientation, bewilderment

Expresiones frecuentes: mental vertigo, emotional vertigo, vertigo of possibilities

rotación, giro

Movimiento de dar vueltas muy deprisa.

En inglés sencillo: The action of turning round and round very quickly.

• The wheel's vertigo blurred its painted markings.
• The dance ended in a vertigo of movement.
• Dust rose in the vertigo of the turning blades.

Sinónimos: rotation, whirling

Expresiones frecuentes: rapid vertigo, vertigo of motion, vertigo of wheels

caracol Vertigo

Caracol terrestre diminuto del grupo Vertigo, que tiene una pequeña concha erguida.

En inglés sencillo: A tiny land snail belonging to a group with small, upright shells.

• A tiny vertigo clung to the leaf.
• The researcher examined a vertigo under a microscope.
• This wetland provides a habitat for several vertigos.

Expresiones frecuentes: tiny vertigo, vertigo snail, vertigo shell