apoplexy
noun
1 apoplexy
A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
synonyms: cerebrovascular accident, CVA, stroke.
Roget 158:
impotence;
inability,
disability;
disablement,
impuissance,
imbecility;
incapacity,
incapability;
inaptitude,
ineptitude,
incompetence,
unproductivity†;
indocility†;
invalidity,
disqualification;
inefficiency,
wastefulness.
telum imbelle [Lat.],
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
blank,
blank cartridge,
flash in the pan,
vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.],
dead letter,
bit of waste paper,
dummy;
paper tiger;
Quaker gun.
inefficacy
etc.
(inutility)
645†;
failure
etc.
732.
helplessness
etc.
adj.;
prostration,
paralysis,
palsy,
apoplexy,
syncope,
sideration†,
deliquium [Lat.],
collapse,
exhaustion,
softening of the brain,
inanition;
emasculation,
orchiotomy [Med.],
orchotomy [Med.].
cripple,
old woman,
muff,
powder puff,
creampuff,
pussycat,
wimp,
mollycoddle;
eunuch.
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Dutch: apoplexie, attaque, beroerte, hersenbloeding
Polish: wylew, udar mózgu, udar, incydent mózgowo-naczyniowy, apopleksja, wylew krwi do mózgu
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