dazzle

dazzle
    n 1: brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily
    v 1: to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from
         intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights"
         [syn: {dazzle}, {bedazzle}, {daze}]
    2: amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or
       skill; "Her arguments dazzled everyone"; "The dancer dazzled
       the audience with his turns and jumps"
    

Dazzle \Daz"zle\, v. i.
   1. To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite
      admiration by brilliancy.
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            Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design. --Pope.
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   2. To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of
      brightness.
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            An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle.  --Bacon.
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            I dare not trust these eyes;
            They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.
                                                  --Dryden.
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Dazzle \Daz"zle\, n.
   A light of dazzling brilliancy.
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Dazzle \Daz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dazzled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dazzling}.] [Freq. of daze.]
   1. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by
      brilliance of light.
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            Those heavenly shapes
            Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze
            Insufferably bright.                  --Milton.
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            An unreflected light did never yet
            Dazzle the vision feminine.           --Sir H.
                                                  Taylor.
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   2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any
      kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies." --Shak.
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162 Moby Thesaurus words for "dazzle":
      addle, addle the wits, amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike,
      ball up, bandage, be bright, beacon, beam, becloud, bedaze,
      bedazzle, befuddle, beguile, benight, bewilder, bewitch, blatancy,
      blaze, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, boggle, bother, bowl down,
      bowl over, brazenness, brilliance, bug, burn, captivate, charm,
      cloud, colorfulness, confound, confuse, crudeness, cut a dash,
      cut a figure, cut a swath, darken, dash, daze, dazzlingness,
      deprive of sight, diffuse light, dim, discombobulate, discomfit,
      discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, disturb, dumbfound,
      dumbfounder, eclipse, embarrass, enchant, entangle, entrance,
      excecate, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, fascinate,
      flabbergast, flagrancy, flamboyance, flame, flare, flash,
      flashiness, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle,
      fulgurate, fuss, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness,
      give light, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glitter, glow,
      gorgeousness, gouge, hoodwink, hypnotize, impress, incandesce,
      intrigue, jauntiness, jazziness, loudness, luridness, luster,
      magnificence, make a figure, make a show, make a splash,
      make blind, maze, meretriciousness, mesmerize, mist, mix up,
      moider, muddle, obscure, obtrusiveness, overwhelm, panache,
      paralyze, perplex, perturb, petrify, pother, put out, radiate,
      raise hell, rattle, ruffle, send out rays, sensationalism,
      shamelessness, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays,
      showiness, snow-blind, sparkle, spellbind, splash, splendor,
      splurge, sportiness, stagger, startle, strike blind, strike dead,
      strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise,
      tawdriness, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset, vulgarness