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adaze

adaze adjective: in a daze; dazed.

Adjective

adaze (not comparable)

  1. In a daze; dazed.
    • He has a trick of forgetting his surroundings until some ruder jostling than usual startles him awake, and he stands all adaze, with the tattered filaments of the dream still hanging about him.1894, Thomas M'Caleb, The Louisiana Book: Selections from the Literature of the State, page 322

Origin of adaze

From a- + daze.

Questions about adaze

What does adaze mean?
Adaze means in a daze; dazed.
What part of speech is adaze?
Adaze is an adjective.

Words near adaze in the dictionary

  1. adaxonal
  2. adaxonally
  3. Aday
  4. Adayes
  5. adays
  6. adaze
  7. adazzle
  8. ADB
  9. adbasal
  10. Adbaston
  11. adblock

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