ETYM Latin, from vertere to turn. Related to Verse.
Psychological screen thriller 1958, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It examines the nature of obsessive love in a plot about a detective (James Stewart), who falls for the woman (Kim Novak) he is tailing; he sees her apparently die and then stumbles on her double. His gradual breakdown and hallucinatory state is complemented by Hitchcock's dreamlike style.
1. Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions.
2. Giddiness, usually as a result of dizziness.
Dizziness; a whirling sensation accompanied by a loss of any feeling of contact with the ground. It may be due to temporary disturbance of the sense of balance (as in spinning for too long on one spot), psychological reasons, disease such as labyrinthitis, or intoxication.