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noun

Dazzle n. A light of dazzling brilliancy.

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 'Dazzle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dazzle" Quotes from Famous Books

... and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinion subsides. Hostile theories correct ...

— An Adventure With A Genius • Alleyne Ireland

... any buried treasure," I admitted; "but I know where lots of it is, and I know just how to go after it." I endeavored to dazzle him with ...

— My Buried Treasure • Richard Harding Davis

... convert those persons who have in their hearts an innate love of slavery; I write for those honest souls who allow themselves to be captivated by the grand visions of national independence which are continually shown to them in order to dazzle and mislead. The South has never been menaced, and at this late hour can return to the Union even with her slaves [the reader will remember that this article was published in December, 1862], and is only required not to ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... emotions. At length she arose: with a proud and steady air she wiped away the tears which, glistened on her eyelashes, like the amber-gum on the thorns of the larch-tree, and said, "Ammalat! tempt me not! The flame of love will not dazzle, the smoke of love will not suffocate, my conscience. I shall ever know what is good and what is bad; and I well know how shameful it is, how base, to desert a father's house, to afflict loving and ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

... and the veto began its estrangement from the king. A new minister was imposed on him. The Count Narbonne de Lara was the most brilliant figure in the noblesse of France, and he lived to captivate and dazzle Napoleon. Talleyrand, who thought the situation under the Constitution desperate, put forward his friend; and Madame de Stael, the queen of constitutional society, obtained for him the ministry of war. The appointment of Narbonne ...

— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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