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US
/ˌæpəˈpɫɛktɪk/
]
[ UK /ˌæpəplˈɛktɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˌæpəplˈɛktɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy
apoplectic seizure
How To Use apoplectic In A Sentence
- They've been helped by the fact that medical malpractice rates really are at record highs, and doctors are understandably apoplectic.
- I don't know why it's not a election issue, and why we're not all standing behind the parents of these children, apoplectic with collective anger and calling for the Minister's head on a plate.
- He's even courteous a lot of the time - at least when he's not apoplectic with rage - particularly to women, and he's passingly kind to the pet dog.
- But the consensus around the Gulf Coast is turning more apoplectic and apocalyptic.
- I look for the driver's expression in their rear-view mirror, but their windows are fitted with tinted glass that hides their indubitable, apoplectic rage.
- It is true also that there were many autocratic denizens of the quarterdeck whom a speck of dust would render apoplectic, but who were not in the least interested in accurate gunnery.
- I'm imagining the words 'seethe', 'apoplectic' ... The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
- When Hillsman accused mainstream Democrats of "sandbagging" Lamont by holding off on information and aid — in essence, dithering over its commitment to the official party nominee — Davis became apoplectic and prosecutorial. Scrap at Yale Highlights New Social Divide: Global Elites Vs. Populist Realists
- He was apoplectic with rage/fury.
- Daughtry, to behold his captain, frayed and bleeding and breathing apoplectically, Michael raging in ghastly silence at the end of a mop, and a large Persian mother-cat writhing with a broken back. CHAPTER VI