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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dazzle \Daz"zle\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dazzled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dazzling}.] [Freq. of daze.]
1. 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. --Milton.
An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. --Sir H. Taylor.
2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. ''Dazzled and drove back his enemies.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dazzling
adjective
1: amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"; "these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth"- Janet Flanner; "adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones [syn: {eye-popping}, {fulgurant}, {fulgurous}]
2: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: {blazing}, {blinding}, {fulgent}, {glaring}, {glary}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "dazzling": beaming, bedazzling, blinding, blooming, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, devastating, divine, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, fulgid, garish, glamorous, glaring, glary, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, mind-boggling, obscuring, overpowering, overwhelming, radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, resplendent, scintillating, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, stunning, stupefying, sublime, vivid
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