Meaning of acrophobe | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights.

Examples

“Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.”

“Paradoxes abounded in Mr. Tishman’s life. A self-described acrophobe who shied away from the precipices of the skyscrapers he was constructing, he loved piloting his own airplanes.”

“Mia and Sebastian take a romantic stroll on an elegant, curvy concrete bridge that love-struck acrophobes wouldn’t be caught dead on.”

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