dazzle
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dazzle
- /ˈdæzəl/
Rhymes with -æzəl
Where it comes from
From daze + -le, a frequentative form.
verb dazzles · dazzling · dazzled
- To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness. Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
- To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
- To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.
noun dazzles
- A light of dazzling brilliancy.
- Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
- A herd of zebra. We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]
- Dazzle camouflage.
