apoplectic

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She looks very apoplectic, the dear soul; no wonder her brothers are anxious about her.

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  1. adjective Of, resembling, or produced by apoplexy: an apoplectic fit.
  2. adjective Having or inclined to have apoplexy.
  3. adjective Exhibiting symptoms associated with apoplexy.
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  • Very senior Democratic officeholders were apoplectic, and almost unanimously they said Wilder couldn't win and would take the ticket down with him. —  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • Superintendents of Michigan's richest school districts are apoplectic -- and who can blame them? —  Freep.com - RSS
  • There was no question that the stroke had been apoplectic, and that is the sort of thing from which at eighty one does not recover. —  Short Stories of Various Types
  • The effort of silence was so great that Joanna became purple and apoplectic--with a wild, grabbing gesture she turned away, and burst out of the house into the drive, where her trap was waiting 26 The next morning Mene Tekel brought fresh news from the Woolpack, and this time it was of a different quality, warranted to allay the seething of Joanna's moral sense. —  Joanna Godden
  • Cohen was apoplectic, and Ashley is young and powerful. —  The Old Man in the Corner
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  1. from Latin apoplecticus, from Greek αποπληκτικός, apoplectic, from ἀπόπληκτος, disabled by a stroke: see apoplexy.
 

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