dazzle
/ˈdæzəl/ verb C1- To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness. · Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.· Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.
- To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. · The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
- To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
He/she/it dazzles · Past dazzled · Past participle dazzled · -ing form dazzling
Verb forms
- Base form
- dazzle
- He/she/it
- dazzles
- Past
- dazzled
- Past participle
- dazzled
- -ing form
- dazzling
From the library
Perhaps if I’d told her the truth instead of all that razzle-dazzle we might—but, confound it!
He was willing to do that, for he was a true son of the great city of razzle-dazzle, and to him one evening in the limelight made up for many dark ones.
“I’m just dazzled inside,” said Anne.
The electric lights dazzled her eyes, the perfume and hum bewildered her.
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