Dazzle

/ˈdæzəl/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
3. (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
4. A light of dazzling brilliancy.
5. (figurative) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
6. (uncommon, collective) A herd of zebra.
7. (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.

Example Sentences

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.

Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.

An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.

The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

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

[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.

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 […]

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• dazzles
• dazzling
• dazzled

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