apoplexy
a puh plek see
- n a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- Stephen, an obscure Roman presbyter, was elected Pope on March 2-3, 752, but two days later, before he could be crowned, died of apoplexy.
- To understand the apoplexy it created is to understand what Greene had come to represent.
- Nazi spokesmen last week announced the death from apoplexy of lean, athletic Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, 57, Commander of Germany's Sixth Army in the Ukraine, who was so .