dazzle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill

   My arguments dazzled everyone.

2. 2
   verb

   to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light

   I was dazzled by the bright headlights.

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

   The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

5. 5
   verb

   To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

   For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.

6. 6
   noun

   A herd of zebra.

   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 […]

7. 7
   noun

   brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily

8. 8
   noun

   A light of dazzling brilliancy.

Etymology

From daze + -le, a frequentative form.