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dazzle
/ˈdæzəl/
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What does dazzle mean?
verb
- To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
- (figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
- To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A light of dazzling brilliancy.
- (figuratively) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
- A herd of zebra.
- Dazzle camouflage.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdæzəl/
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The birds of the middle region dazzle with their contrasts of plumage, and their voices are for screaming rather than singing.
“Nothing but the cloud of arrows flying so thick as to dazzle mine eyes, and to hide the bowmen who shoot them.”
More book examples (3)
Bathsheba was on the ground now, shouldering another sheaf, and she bore its dazzle without flinching—thunder and all—and again ascended with the load.
Of a sudden, aslant the road, A brightness to dazzle and stun, A glint of the bluest blue, A flash from a sapphire sun.
What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition to dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not describe.