dazle

Verb

dazzle (third-person singular simple present dazzles, present participle dazzling, simple past and past participle dazzled)

1. (transitive) To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
   • Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
   • The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

   Synonyms:

   impress, overpower

3. (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
   • For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries

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