dazzle

About 0.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.

2. verb To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

   The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

3. verb To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
4. noun A light of dazzling brilliancy.
5. noun Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
6. noun A herd of zebra.
7. noun Dazzle camouflage.

Similar words

bedazzle daze razzle glare glaring awe disability discomfort awkwardness embarrassment

Often followed by

the of and us them him his me with

Word family

dazzled dazzler dazzlers dazzles dazzling dazzlingly