Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to acrophobia

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  • adjective suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places

Etymologies

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acro- + -phobic

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Examples

  • For example, β€œAt first, acrophobic Mary thinks her life is perfect β€” great hair, great job, ground-floor apartment on the Nebraska plains.”

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Battle of the Query 2010

  • There is no better place to be acrophobic and claustrophobic than in a glass elevator stuck on the forty-second floor.

    Overthoughts Ulysses 2010

  • James Stewart plays Scottie, an acrophobic private eye who receives an unusual assignment: to follow Madeleine (Kim Novak), the wife of an old friend, who is drifting around San Francisco in a dazed funk.

    Vertigo: No 3 Ryan Gilbey 2010

  • There is no better place to be acrophobic and claustrophobic than in a glass elevator stuck on the forty-second floor.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Ulysses 2010

  • If you are like me and are not acrophobic, you probably prefer relatively transparent bridge guardrails that enable views, as opposed to mostly solid, visually opaque guardrails that obstruct views.

    Roger Lewis's pet peeves about the District and its architecture Roger K. Lewis 2010

  • Blythe, our acrophobic flight-attendant heroine, has a special skill.

    Comics Round-Up: Week of 3/24 - Pink Raygun.com 2010

  • The only problem is this serial killer with his clone family is agoraphobic and acrophobic and won't go into space.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starfire - Charles Sheffield Blue Tyson 2009

  • He forces the acrophobic Gil to climb the rigging and sends Frank home when he kills a dolphin.

    Stormy Weather 2008

  • But not too sad, because I really had no desire to see Laura huddled in an acrophobic lump on the floor of a gondola.

    Luxor deluxe shunn 2008

  • But not too sad, because I really had no desire to see Laura huddled in an acrophobic lump on the floor of a gondola.

    Luxor deluxe shunn 2008

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