different between possessed vs dizzy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??z?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: pos?sessed

Verb

possessed

1. simple past tense and past participle of possess

Adjective

possessed (comparative more possessed, superlative most possessed)

1. controlled by evil spirits.

2. Seized by powerful emotions.
3. (not comparable) Followed by of: having; owning.

Derived terms

• possessedly
• self-possessed

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• dizzie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English disy, dysy, desi, dusy, from Old English dysi?, dyse? (“dizzy; foolish; unwise; stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *dusigaz (“stunned; dazed”). Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d?zi/
• Rhymes: -?zi

Adjective

dizzy (comparative dizzier, superlative dizziest)

1. Having a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

   I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.

   • 1627, Michael Drayton, Nimphidia, the Court of Faery

     Alas! his brain was dizzy.

2. Producing giddiness.

   We climbed to a dizzy height.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.

3. Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

   My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

Derived terms

• dizzies (noun)
• dizzily
• dizziness
• dizzyingly

Translations

Verb

dizzy (third-person singular simple present dizzies, present participle dizzying, simple past and past participle dizzied)

1. (transitive) To make dizzy, to bewilder.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:

     Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […].