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Definition of Dazzle

1. Verb. To cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light. "She was dazzled by the bright headlights"

2. Noun. Brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily.

3. Verb. Amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill. "The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps"

Definition of Dazzle

1. v. t. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.

2. v. i. To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.

3. n. A light of dazzling brilliancy.

Definition of Dazzle

1. Verb. (transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. ¹

3. Noun. A light of dazzling brilliancy. ¹

4. Noun. (uncommon) A herd of zebra. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dazzle

1. to blind by bright light [v -ZLED, -ZLING, -ZLES]

Medical Definition of Dazzle

1. 1. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light. "Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright." (Milton) "An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine." (Sir H. Taylor) 2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies." Origin: Freq. Of daze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dazzle

dayworkers dayworks daze dazed dazedly dazedness dazednesses dazer dazers dazes

dazibao dazibaos daziness dazing dazy dazzle (current term) dazzle camouflage dazzled dazzlement dazzlements

dazzler dazzlers dazzles dazzling dazzling glare dazzlingly dazzlingness dazzlings dbas dbh

Literary usage of Dazzle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"dazzle. Harkaway — • let me see — I ought to be related to the ... dazzle Anything ! Everything ! From a blood to a broomstick. ..."

2. Conversations with M. Thiers, M. Guizot, and Other Distinguished Persons by Nassau William Senior (1878)
"THE PRESIDENT WISHES TO dazzle. en more than a counterpoise; it would have ... neces- ry to dazzle the people by some great social ameliorations [>r by war. ..."

3. The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) by David Fallon (1918)
"CHAPTER XII "RAZZLE dazzle" IT was at Beaumont-Hamel, about September 16th, ... The dear girl was named "Razzle dazzle." She was very young, having been in ..."

4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... to feare away birdes', Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 23, § 2. See blanch. blend, to blind, to dazzle. Spenser, FQ iv. 3. ..."

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