dazzle

== English == === Etymology === From daze +‎ -le, a frequentative form. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdæzəl/ Rhymes: -æzəl === Verb === dazzle (third-person singular simple present dazzles, present participle dazzling, simple past and past participle dazzled) (transitive) To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness. Hypernym: blind Coordinate terms: daze, disorient (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. Synonyms: impress, overpower (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === dazzle (countable and uncountable, plural dazzles) A light of dazzling brilliancy. (figurative) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly. (uncommon, collective) A herd of zebra. 1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition): 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 […] (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage. ==== Synonyms ==== (group of zebras): herd, zeal. ==== Derived terms ==== antidazzle ==== Translations ==== === See also === if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull