Apoplexy Synonyms, Apoplexy Antonyms

apoplexy late 14c., "sudden fit of paralysis and dizziness," from L.L. apoplexia, from Gk. apoplexia, from apoplessein "to strike down and incapacitate," from apo- "off" (see apo-), in this case probably an intensive prefix, + plessein "hit" (cf. plague, also with a root sense of "stricken"). The L. translation, sideratio, means "disease caused by a constellation."

Example Sentences for apoplexy

On the day before his death from apoplexy he imagined to himself despatches in which his son's name figured brilliantly.

He adds that the surgeon described death as due to apoplexy.

Epilepsy and apoplexy were understood as spasms inside the head.

They will find it apoplexy, or some such thing, I have no doubt of it.