What's the difference between bewilder and dizzy?

Bewilder


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was standing in the street looking windswept and bewildered.
  • (2) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (3) Its president, the former Canadian Liberal party leader and former Observer columnist Michael Ignatieff, is bewildered.
  • (4) Their response has always completely bewildered me.
  • (5) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
  • (6) Ross loved a girl of 17, so he married her when he was 28; a field-day for predictors of doom who must now be bewildered that two decades and three children proved them wrong.
  • (7) The presence of a de novo phosphatidylethanolamine Kennedy pathway in P. falciparum contributes to the bewildering variety of phospholipid biosynthetic pathways in this parasitic organism.
  • (8) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
  • (9) Amid the incoherent responses that make up a bewildering official narrative, the idea that the militants are funded by the government is gaining currency.
  • (10) If you talk to anybody who is not in the Labour party, they’re actually bewildered that he’s still in place,” Low added.
  • (11) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
  • (12) This is not surprising because although textbooks recommend a bewildering variety of test doses, they seldom give precise details as to how they should be conducted.
  • (13) Ross Sutherland's Standby For Tape Back-Up, which still bewilders me.
  • (14) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
  • (15) But more rounded beer fans will find plenty to enjoy in its vast array of bottles (a bit bewildering, as there was no menu on a recent visit) and 13 keg lines.
  • (16) Instead – plainly bewildering to some commentators – here is unaccustomed unity of purpose.
  • (17) When General Electric jobs left Schenectady so did a way of life Read more Patrignani proudly chats me through the bewildering array of silicone-based products Momentive makes and that end up in everything from lipstick, car parts and the adhesives that are used in stamps and bandages to airplane seats and the glue that held the tiles on the space shuttle.
  • (18) He is bewildered by the "contradiction" within sections of the disability lobby, some of whom fear that the law will be used to discriminate against disabled people's quality of life and persuade them to end their lives instead.
  • (19) Burke told Guardian Australia: "I find some of the political points quite bewildering.
  • (20) So much so that the 28-year-old at the centre of it all is quite bewildered.

Dizzy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.
  • (superl.) Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo.
  • (superl.) Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless.
  • (v. t.) To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (2) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
  • (3) Implantation of a single-chamber pacemaker was planned in an 83-year-old woman with sick-sinus syndrome causing dizziness, bradycardia and tachycardia.
  • (4) After controlling for the effects of active and passive exposure to cigarette smoke, problems with the home heating system (odds ratio 9.6; p less than 0.03) and the presence of cohabitants with concurrent headache or dizziness (odds ratio 21.6; p less than 0.0001) were associated with an increased risk of a carboxyhemoglobin greater than 10 percent.
  • (5) Most of the animals had damage in the third and fourth turns (22) and a minority of these had dizziness and destruction nystagmus (3).
  • (6) A 46-year-old man with hepatoma was admitted with chief complaints of headache, fever and dizziness.
  • (7) Among the exposed still employed a trend towards a higher prevalence of dizziness was found.
  • (8) A subjective feeling of dizziness was observed by all volunteers, but it was not possible to make a correlation between this and the drug levels in this study.
  • (9) Vestibular symptoms were pronounced and, although compensation was not delayed, positional dizziness and instability usually persisted for several months and occasionally for a year or more.
  • (10) Diminished salivary flow was significantly greater with amitriptyline, as were complaints of dry mouth, somnolence, dizziness, and headache.
  • (11) 4 cases of drug-induced side effects were reported: dizziness and mild dyspepsia.
  • (12) During monotherapy, side-effects occurred in 12% of the patients (tachycardia, headache, weakness, dizziness).
  • (13) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
  • (14) Dizziness in three with insomnia and vomiting in one patient complicated the treatment.
  • (15) Post-concussional symptoms, such as headache, dizziness and irritability, are thought to result from the emotional stress associated with decreased cognitive performance after a head injury.
  • (16) A standardised test of psychopathology (CCEI) was administered to tinnitus sufferers some of whom also complained of dizziness.
  • (17) Eight subjects reported subjective feelings of light-headedness or slight dizziness, which are not typical after slower absorption from nicotine gum or skin patches.
  • (18) He has broken four Guinness world records, most of them for speed–mad 100-metre dashes across dizzyingly high wires, and frequently appears on Chinese television.
  • (19) Several subjects reported light-headedness and dizziness during rest intervals.
  • (20) A 55-year old male patient, with dizzy spells during everyday activity and a complete right bundle branch block as the sole electrocardiographic abnormality, reproducibly demonstrated tachycardia-dependent Mobitz Type II- and 2:1 second degree atrioventricular block.