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Definition of Dazzled

1. Adjective. Having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light. "She shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance"

2. Adjective. Stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering. "I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise."

Definition of Dazzled

1. Verb. (past of dazzle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dazzled

1. dazzle [v] - See also: dazzle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dazzled

daze dazed dazedly dazedness dazednesses dazer dazers dazes dazibao dazibaos

daziness dazing dazy dazzle dazzle camouflage dazzled (current term) dazzlement dazzlements dazzler dazzlers

dazzles dazzling dazzling glare dazzlingly dazzlingness dazzlings dbas dbh dbl dcmp deaminase

Literary usage of Dazzled

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

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"This passage was very dark, and as my guide opened the door at the end, I was almost dazzled by the sunlight in the white ceiled and delicately-papered room ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Dark-red the sea beneath it flowed, Red rose the rocks on ocean's brim, In blood-red light her islets swim; Wild scream the dazzled sea-fowl gave, ..."

3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"He sent her a looking-glass. опт eyes are dazzled by a diamond, it never occurs to us to ask a mineralogist for its history." It is an old reproach against ..."

4. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"... and to bear an honourable testimony to the truth of the Gospel before his persecuting judges. with which the world had been dazzled, wag to be eclipsed ..."

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