From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishapoplexyap‧o‧plex‧y /ˈæpəpleksi/ noun [uncountable] old-fashioned MIan illness in your brain which causes you to suddenly lose your ability to move or think SYN stroke
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apoplexy• Amiss wondered if apoplexy would ensue, but all that followed was silence.• It is clearly a massive apoplexy.• Brian Dennehy, reprising his Broadway role, tackles Willy with bluster and a huge, bellowing presence bordering on apoplexy.• Such a practice is enough to give some modern scholars apoplexy.• It was enough to give you apoplexy.Origin apoplexy (1300-1400) Late Latin apoplexia, from Greek, from apoplessein “to damage with a stroke”, from apo- ( → APOCALYPSE) + plessein “to strike” 