[ US /ˌæpəˈpɫɛktɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˌæpəplˈɛktɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy
    apoplectic seizure
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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
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