dazzle

Plural: dazzles

Noun

• brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily
• A light of dazzling brilliancy.
• Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
• A herd of zebra.
• Dazzle camouflage.

Verb

Verb Forms: dazzled, dazzling, dazzles

• To blind or overpower with intense light or brilliance.
• to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
  • "She was dazzled by the bright headlights"
• 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"
• To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
• To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
• To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

Examples

• Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.
• Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
• His impressive 50-point play would surely dazzle his Words With Friends opponent.
• The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

Synonyms

bedazzle, daze, herd, impress, overpower, zeal

Related Words

if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull

Anagrams of dazzle