Thesaurus / apoplectic
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MOST RELEVANT
- frozen
- immobile
- inert
- lifeless
- paralyzed
- stagnant
- stationary
- steadfast
- at a standstill
- at rest
- becalmed
- dead
- deadlocked
- deathly
- firm
- fixed
- halted
- immotile
- inanimate
- numb
- palsied
- petrified
- quiescent
- quiet
- spellbound
- stable
- stalled
- standing
- static
- still
- stock-still
- torpid
- transfixed
- unmovable
- unmoved
- unmoving
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"You have told me that before," roared the portly gentleman, waxing almost apoplectic.
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN THE SADDLELAURA LEE HOPE
Ferocity nearly inarticulate, fury almost apoplectic, were expressed by the face above the weather-worn rail.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAY
But I am afraid that cook will have an apoplectic fit if he isn't careful, the way he was waving his arms and carrying on.
BILLY WHISKERS' ADVENTURESFRANCES TREGO MONTGOMERY
About noon, leaving the parlour, he was found a few minutes after in an apoplectic fit, or a seizure resembling apoplexy.
It was an apoplectic seizure, the doctors told us later, brought on by excessive nervous irritation of the brain.
THE PASSENGER FROM CALAISARTHUR GRIFFITHS
If the labor has been long, or the presentation unfavorable, the child may be born apoplectic, from the pressure it has received.
He wore a double-jeweled ring on his apoplectic finger, and a scarab scarf-pin.
THE WITNESSGRACE LIVINGSTON HILL LUTZ
We have sure handed the small consumer a giant blow in the sole apoplectic region.
THE GENTLE GRAFTERO. HENRY
On hearing this news King Wenceslaus was seized with an apoplectic fit, and died a few days afterwards.
Within a year Brown had died in New Zealand of an apoplectic stroke.
LIFE OF JOHN KEATSSIDNEY COLVIN
WORDS RELATED TO APOPLECTIC
- apoplectic
- at a standstill
- at rest
- becalmed
- dead
- deadlocked
- deathly
- firm
- fixed
- frozen
- halted
- immobile
- immotile
- inanimate
- inert
- lifeless
- numb
- palsied
- paralyzed
- petrified
- quiescent
- quiet
- spellbound
- stable
- stagnant
- stalled
- standing
- static
- stationary
- steadfast
- still
- stock-still
- torpid
- transfixed
- unmovable
- unmoved
- unmoving
- apoplectic
- at a standstill
- at rest
- becalmed
- dead
- deadlocked
- deathly
- firm
- fixed
- frozen
- halted
- immobile
- immotile
- inanimate
- inert
- lifeless
- numb
- palsied
- paralyzed
- petrified
- quiescent
- quiet
- spellbound
- stable
- stagnant
- stalled
- standing
- static
- stationary
- steadfast
- still
- torpid
- transfixed
- unmovable
- unmoved
- unmoving
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.