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/dˈæzəlɪŋ/ /dˈæzlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Dazzle v. t. (past & past part. dazzled; pres. part. dazzling)

To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light. "Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright." "An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine."

To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies."

Dazzle v. i.

To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy. "Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design."

To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. "An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle." "I dare not trust these eyes; They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise."

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Etymology of 'Dazzling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dazzling" Quotes from Famous Books

... domestic comfort had been taken as well as his power, was driven to desperation by this blow. He had lost his wife and his best counsellors; he had never been strong enough to restrain his son, nor resist his brother. David, his first-born and heir, the gay and handsome youth who was dazzling and delightful to his father's eyes even in his worst follies, had been, as no doubt he felt, delivered over to his worst enemy by that father's own tremulous hand; and the heart-broken old man in his bereavement and terror could only think of getting the one ...

— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant

... time I observed a bracelet of dazzling gems on her wrist. "Not diamonds?" I said. She answered, with as much composure as if she had been the wife of a nobleman, "Yes, diamonds—a present from Marmaduke." This was too much for me; my previsions, ...

— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins

... lettres Pared on the plaister, pourtrayed letters. When at bolde Balta[gh]ar blusched to at neue When that bold Belshazzar looked to that fist, Such a dasande drede dusched to his hert Such a dazzling dread dashed to his heart. at al falewed his face & fayled e chere That all paled his face and failed the cheer; e stronge strok of e stonde strayned his ioyntes The strong stroke of the blow strained ...

— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various

... however, to see that one great battleground of controversy in any suggested reforms must be the design of the type itself. Here, fortunately, the English public starts with a great advantage. We have thrown overboard our old black letter with its dazzling contrasts of shading and its fussy ornament, and therefore can begin where the Germans must some day leave off. We have no accents or other diacritical marks, and in this respect are superior to ...

— The Booklover and His Books • Harry Lyman Koopman

... drive in the twilight's soft gloom; Dazzling the change to society's light; Proud of my Harry I enter the room, Every eye ...

— Harry • Fanny Wheeler Hart

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