Dazed
//deɪzd// adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of daze form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 In a state of shock or confusion.
"The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital."
- 2 Stunned or entranced.
Adjective
- 1 in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock wordnet
- 2 stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) wordnet
Example
More examples"He was dazed by a blow to the head."
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old Norse dasaðr (“weary”), dasask (“to become weary”), from Proto-Germanic *dasōjan-, from the adjective *daza-, possibly from a variant of Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, support”), related to Armenian դադարել (dadarel, “to settle, stop, end”).
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