dazzle
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Is dazzle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.Examples: "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."transitive
2. (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.Examples: "The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments."Synonyms: impress, overpowerfigurativelytransitive
3. (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.Examples: "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."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.countablefigurativelyuncountable
2. (uncommon, collective) A herd of zebra.Examples: "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 […]"; "Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]"; "I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool."collectivecountableuncommonuncountable
3. (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.uncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary