Dazzle
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A light of dazzling brilliancy. countable, uncountable
- 2 brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily wordnet
- 3 Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly. countable, figuratively, uncountable
- 4 A herd of zebra. collective, countable, uncommon, uncountable
"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 […]"
- 5 Dazzle camouflage. uncountable
- 1 To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness. transitive
"Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street."
- 2 amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill wordnet
- 3 To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. figuratively, transitive
"The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments."
- 4 to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light wordnet
- 5 To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. intransitive
"For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness."
Example
More examples"It is the light of darkness that will dazzle us, we who look at blindness as white as a black lamb."
Etymology
From daze + -le, a frequentative form.
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