DAZZLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dazzled mean? 

• DAZZLED (adjective)
  The adjective DAZZLED has 2 senses:

1. having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light

2. stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering

  Familiarity information: DAZZLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAZZLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light

Context example:

she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance

Similar:

blind; unsighted (unable to see)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering

Context example:

I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.

Similar:

confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)

 Context examples 

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

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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)

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)

If that girl had proper opportunity to dress, Mr. Eden, and if she were taught how to carry herself, you would be fairly dazzled by her, and so would all men.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Clearly, you are dazzled by this person—if the partnership is for business, do thorough background checks and get references.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

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

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I did so, and immediately all the troops gave a shout between terror and surprise; for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes, as I waved the scimitar to and fro in my hand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was dazzled by it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was echoed from Salêve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On waking, a gleam dazzled my eyes; I thought—Oh, it is daylight!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)