dazzle

UK /ˈdæzəl/ US /ˈdæzəl/
noun 4verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

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.

Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.

2

To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.

3

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.

[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.

noun

1

A light of dazzling brilliancy.

2

Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.

3

A herd of zebra.

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 […]

Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]

4

Dazzle camouflage.

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