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🤩 To impress greatly 🌞 A blinding brightness 💡 To blind with light
to dazzle

to dazzle

6 4.1
To make someone unable to see clearly because of a very bright light
  • verb
  • /ˈdæzl/
translation icon : deslumbrar
  • The sudden brightness dazzled him, and it took him a few seconds to get his bearings.

Examples

  • I walked in, almost dazzled by the light, to buy a soda at one of those stands.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • I close my eyes and see darkness, and then a light suddenly appears, dazzling me.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Now watch your eyes, 'cause it's gonna dazzle ya.

    The Leather Boys (1964)

  • The light, striking sparks from the yellow stones all around her, dazzled her eyes.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Most likely, she was dazzled by sunlight while hiking through woodland.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • When she turns to face us again, her eyes, dazzled by the late sun, look around the hut uncertainly.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The sudden burst of light and the yellow sand under the glaring sun dazzled him.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Reeling, Peregrine flung up his arms to shield his dazzled eyes.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The scanning lasers on the robot suddenly rotated and flashed back off the ice, dazzling him.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The bright headlights of the oncoming car dazzled me as I drove at night.

Synonyms

to bedazzle
vsto dazzle
1 7.7

Stop someone from seeing for a short time with a very bright light

targets loss of clear sight rather than causing mental confusion

Antonyms

to darken
63 3.3

Make or become less bright, for example a room

Compounds

razzle-dazzle
  • Informal
4 8.5

A flashy, exciting move used to impress or confuse people

How Blinding

to blind
104 3.7
to dazzle
6 4.1

Surface Forms

dazzle infinitive
dazzled past
dazzled past participle
dazzling present participle
dazzles third person singular

Morphology

dazzle = daze (transparent) = daze + le

The connection to 'daze' is fairly direct, with -le adding an intensive or frequentative nuance, so the meaning is still guessable from the base.

Etymology

Dazzle comes from an old word that meant 'to blind' and is related to the word daze. So to dazzle someone with a bright light is to make them lose clear sight for a short time.