"delirium" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a state of confusion or wildly disordered, irrational thought or speech. For example, you might say, "She was in a state of delirium, talking about all kinds of strange, impossible things."
To scenes of wild delirium and utter dismay, the hosts had the silverware ripped from their grasp when their opponents, down to 10 men, won and converted a 93rd-minute penalty.
Almost without exception, they are a tsunami of partisan delirium.
Delirium turned to despair for Bournemouth, although the consolation for Eddie Howe's side is that they remain in control of their destiny.
The GOP's delirium over birth control and its magical thinking about rape this election season have shocked observers around the world.
In his post-surgery delirium, "I told the nurse my girlfriend was my sister but we were still having sex.
At a stroke this heartless person – OK, it was me – stole from him everything that was best about his birthday: a night of anticipation, the breakfast-time delirium of the unwrapping, and (this was what upset him most) his pleasure at making his parents pleased by being pleased himself.
This is the biggest profits surprise that Mr Hill can remember.In this section Coping with surpluses Divide and rule The return of pricing power The open society Reluctant graduates Debt delirium Feelings are no longer mutual Undue caution Reprints Related topics Interest rates Alan Greenspan Business Economies National economyIt was not due just to higher sales.
She has just come out of several days' delirium.
The result is a spectacle that conveys the thrill of the Enlightenment as well as the delirium of revolution.Ordinary people were hungry for new ideas and many of those ideas travelled on paper.
Her daughter, "seized with fever and delirium", would not stop "raving about her brother".
Kenya, the region's biggest economy, was sent into delirium on March 26th by the announcement of a big oil strike in its wild north.
