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In some senses, dazzle is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
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.
To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
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
A light of dazzling brilliancy.
Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
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, […]
Dazzle camouflage.