DAZZLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dazzle mean? 

• DAZZLE (noun)
  The noun DAZZLE has 1 sense:

1. brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily

  Familiarity information: DAZZLE used as a noun is very rare.

• DAZZLE (verb)
  The verb DAZZLE has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: DAZZLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAZZLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("dazzle" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Derivation:

dazzle (to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light)

• DAZZLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dazzle    ... he / she / it dazzles   
Past simple: dazzled   
Past participle: dazzled   
-ing form: dazzling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

bedazzle; daze; dazzle

Context example:

She was dazzled by the bright headlights

Hypernyms (to "dazzle" is one way to...):

blind (render unable to see)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

dazzle (brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps

Hypernyms (to "dazzle" is one way to...):

amaze; astonish; astound (affect with wonder)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

The meeting of Venus and Jupiter in Sagittarius, an aspect rarer than diamonds, will happen on November 24 and bring you a dazzling, memorable weekend.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

His mirror of vision was silver-clear, a flashing, dazzling palimpsest of imagery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Even the grim south-western promontory showed less grim, and here and there, where the sea-spray wet its surface, high lights flashed and dazzled in the sun.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Stripes may dazzle flies in some way once they are close enough to see them with their low-resolution eyes, said study co-author and Royal Society University Research Fellow Martin How.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy's eyes.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I was dazzled, stimulated: my senses were excited; and being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, I thought I loved her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The chargers spun round each other, biting and striking, while the two blades wheeled and whizzed and circled in gleams of dazzling light.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This star system could be the archetype to explain a dazzling variety of glowing shapes uncovered by Hubble that are seen around dying stars, called planetary nebulae, researchers say.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

I am blessed that to-day I come to see you, for I have learn all at once so much that again I am dazzle—dazzle more than ever, and I must think.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)