# dazzle
## English
### Etymology

From daze +‎ -le, a frequentative form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdæzəl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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
    Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
    Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
** 1834, Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde‎, volume 1, page 45:An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
* (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
    Synonyms: impress, overpower
    The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
* (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
** 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries‎:For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.
** 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy‎:[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.

#### Derived terms

* adazzle
* bedazzle
* dazzlement
* dazzler
* dazzlesome
* endazzle
* endazzlement
* nondazzle
* outdazzle
* overdazzle
* razzle-dazzle
* redazzle
* technodazzle
* undazzle

#### 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) 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 […]
** 2009, Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts, page 176:Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]
** 2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22:I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.
* (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