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English
Noun
apoplex (countable and uncountable, plural apoplexes)
- Obsolete form of apoplexy.
1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “ The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. , London: Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:He bears into the bath, whence want of breath,
Repletions, apoplex, intestate death.
Verb
apoplex (third-person singular simple present apoplexes, present participle apoplexing, simple past and past participle apoplexed)
- To suffer a fit of apoplexy.
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