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apoplexy.

Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.

8 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈæp.əˌplɛk.si/
  1. Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.

    countable · dated · uncountable
  2. Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke. Gross hemorrhage into a cavity or into the substance of an organ.

    countable · dated · uncountable
  3. A state of intense anger; uncontrollable fury so intense as to have effects like a stroke.

    countable · informal · uncountable
    That message sent him into a fit of apoplexy.
Where this word comes from

Late Middle English from Old French apoplexie, from Late Latin apoplexia, from Ancient Greek ἀποπληξία (apoplēxía, “madness; apoplexy, paralysis”), from ἀποπλήσσω (apoplḗssō, “to cripple by a stroke”) + -ία (-ía, nominal suffix). See plague.

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