Dazzle

  

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Dazzle

Definitions: Dazzle

Dazzle

Noun

1. Brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily.

Verb

1. To cause someone to lose clear vision, esp. from intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights".

2. Amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill; "Her arguments dazzled everyone"; "The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dazzle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Dazzle

Synonyms: bedazzle (v), daze (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dazzle

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inattention

Call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head; disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider, fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus.

Respect

Command respect, inspire respect; awe, inspire awe, impose, overawe, dazzle.

Wonder

Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dazzle

English words defined with "dazzle": eloquent, Endazzlefacile, fluentsilver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dazzle": negligible nuclear risk, negligible risk. (references)
Etymologies containing "dazzle": Endazzle. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dazzle

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Did he dazzle you with his extensive knowledge of mineral water? (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

Picture this: It's a couple of months from now, Tippy Von Schlagger opens her new copy of Dazzle Magazine and guess what she sees? (High Society; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Pat Dougherty)

Lyrics

Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light ("Pour Some Sugar On Me"; performing artist: Def Leppard)

Clever

If You Can't Dazzle Them With Brilliance, Riddle Them With Bullets. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show (1974)

Roof-Top Razzle Dazzle (1964)

Razzle Dazzle (1961)

Dazzle (1995)

Rascal Dazzle (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dazzle

DomainTitle

Books

  • Christmas (Razzle Dazzle Book) (reference)

  • Colors: A Razzle Dazzle Book (Razzle Dazzle Books) (reference)

  • David Kibbe's Metamorphosis: Discover Your Image Identity and Dazzle As Only You Can (reference)

  • Dazzle the Dinosaur (reference)

  • Easy Poetry Lessons That Dazzle and Delight (Grades 3-6) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Dazzle

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Deeds of daring dazzle history, and form one of the guiding lights of man.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dazzle

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

India

In some cases former sex workers and brothel owners act as procurers or work through contacts in village to dazzle impoverished villagers with their wealth in order to entice women into the business. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dazzle

"Dazzle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.70% of the time. "Dazzle" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)53.7%5844,427
Lexical Verb (infinitive)32.41%3558,339
Lexical Verb (base form)12.04%1397,576
Noun (proper)1.85%2245,945
                    Total100.00%108N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dazzle

Expression using "dazzle": dazzle paint. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dazzle": dazzle-bright, dazzle-confusion, dazzle-painted, dazzle-painting.

Ending with "dazzle": anti-dazzle, go on the razzle-dazzle, non-dazzle, razzle-dazzle, snow-dazzle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dazzle

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dazzle

1,159

dazzle multimedia

92

razzle dazzle

70

dazzle dvd

64

dazzle driver

63

dazzle fusion

57

dazzle nail

57

dazzle video

53

dazzle digital video creator

47

dazzle hollywood dv bridge

42
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dazzle

Language Translations for "dazzle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

verboj (blind, darken, Seel), verbim (blackout, blinding, dazzling), shkëlqim i verbuar, josh (attract, bewitch, charm, dangle, decoy, deprave, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, lure away, seduce, tempt, vamp, wile), habis (amuse, astonish, astound, bemuse, confound, daze, knock, wow, zap). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لمع (beam, blaze, buff, burnish, coruscate, enamel, flare, flash, furbish, gleam, glisten, glitter, polish, radiate, rub up, shine, sparkle), ‏تألق (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, glint, glitter, glory, irradiate, luminosity, magnificence, outshine, radiance, radiate, ray, refulgence, scintillate, shine, shine through, sparkle, star, vivacity), ‏إنبهار (daze), ‏إنبهر, ‏إلتمع, ‏بهر النفس, ‏بهر (bedazzle, blind, daze, illusory, mesmerize, offend). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ярка светлина (flame), смайвам (amaze, baffle, bedazzle, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, kill, knock, knock out, rock, stagger, stun), заслепяване, заслепявам (bedazzle, blind), блестя (blaze, coruscate, glance, gleam, glitter, glow, irradiate, scintillate, shine, shine out, sparkle, twinkle), бивам заслепен. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

耀眼 , , 目炫 (Dazzled, Dazzling), (to show off), (sway, to shade), (glorious). (various references)

   

Czech

  

třpyt (coruscation, gleam, glint, glitter, radiance, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), oslnit (blind, daze, fascinate), oslepit, lesk (brilliance, glare, gleam, glitter, gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, polish, radiance, refulgence, shimmer, shine, splendour). (various references)

   

Danish

  

blænde (collimator, diaphragm, iris). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verblinden, blind maken. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

lumĝeni, blindumi, blindigi. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

blinda. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تابش یاروشنی خیره کننده , خیره کردن (Blind). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sokaista (blind), häikäistä. (various references)

   

French

  

aveugler, éblouissement (dazzlement, dazzling). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ferblynje. (various references)

   

German

  

blenden (be dazzling, bedazzle, blind, dazzling, glare, hoodwink, shadowing, shielding, sighting). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τυφλώνω (blind, go blind, strike blind), θαμπώνω (blear, blind, tarnish, to become cloudy, to darken, to dull, to haze). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לסמא (blind, cause blindness), לס ור (bedazzle, blind, strike blind). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

káprázat (delusion, fantasy, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantom), elképesztés, vakítás, meghökkentés, elvakítás, álcázás (camouflage, cover up, cover-up, mask, masking, palliation, protective concealment, screen, screening, shielding). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

silau, pesona (captivation, enchantment), menyilaukan (flashy, glaring), mencemerlangkan (brighten). (various references)

   

Italian

  

abbagliamento (blooming, dazzling). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ぎゅう詰め (at the last moment, being startled, crumpled, disheveled, feel gloomy, feeling depressed, glare, glitter, hard, jammed, just barely, mimesis, mimicry, packed like sardines, snoringly, tight). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎらぎら (glare, glitter). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

눈을 부시게 하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

dallaghey (befog, blind, daze, glare, glare as light). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

blende (glare). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

blent (blind), blèndu. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

azzleday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cegar (blear, blind, blunt, go blind). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ului (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, confuse, daze, dumbfound, flabbergast, flurry, stun), uimi (amaze, astonish, bedazzle, flabbergast, flummox, stagger, stupefy, surprise), strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, flame, flare, flash, glance, glare, gleam, glisten, glitter, glow, irradiate, light, radiate, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), orbi (blind, deceive, flash, glare, hoodwink), luminã orbitoare, chiorî (blind, deceive, delude), camuflaj (black out, camouflage, veil). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ослеплять (bedazzle, blind). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaslepljivanje, zaslepiti (go blind), zaseniti (blind, overshadow, shade, upstage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

deslumbar, deslumbramiento (blinding, blooming, dazzling, glare). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förblinda (blind, infatuate), blända (bedazzle, blind, daze, fascinate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

parlak ışık, pırıltı (blaze, gleam, glisten, sheen, shimmer, spark of, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling), kamufle etmek (camouflage, mask, screen), kamuflaj boyası (baffle paint, dazzle paint), göz kamaştırmak (bedazzle, blind, glare, look one's best, sparkle), büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

alarmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сліпучий блиск (blare, glare), камуфляж (camouflage), вражати (amaze, appal, appall, bemuse, concuss, daze, impress, overwhelm, shine out, shock), засліплювати (darken, unsight), засліплення, захисне фарбування, зачаровувати (allure, beguile, bewitch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, philter, philtre, spell). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự loá mắt, sự hoa mắt (dizziness), sự chói mắt. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dallu (blind), britho (mottle, speckle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dazzle

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cæcare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dazzle

Derivations

Words beginning with "dazzle": dazzled, dazzler, dazzlers, dazzles. (additional references)

Words ending with "dazzle": bedazzle, outdazzle. (additional references)

Words containing "dazzle": bedazzled, bedazzlement, bedazzlements, bedazzles, outdazzled, outdazzles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dazzle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Azazel, Azzulo, Dastle, dazel, Dazeley, dazz, Dezalay, dezl, Dezsoe, dizzle, Dozzel, hazzle, Lazzlo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dazzle"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dazzle" (pronounced da"zul)
4-a" z u lBasil, frazzle.
3-z u lappraisal, arousal, causal, chisel, counterproposal, damsel, disposal, drizzle, easel, embezzle, fizzle, grizzle, guzzle, Hazel, menopausal, muzzle, nasal, nozzle, nuzzle, perusal, pretzel, proposal, puzzle, reappraisal, recusal, refusal, reprisal, sizzle, spousal, weasel, Wurzel.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dazzle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-z-z"

-1 letter: lazed.

-2 letters: adze, dale, daze, deal, lade, laze, lead, zeal.

-3 letters: adz, ale, dal, del, eld, lad, lea, led, lez, zed.

-4 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-z-z"
 

+1 letter: dazzled, dazzler, dazzles.

 

+2 letters: bedazzle, dazzlers, frazzled.

 

+3 letters: bedazzled, bedazzles, outdazzle.

 

+4 letters: bedazzling, outdazzled, outdazzles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dazzle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 61 7A 7A 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-    --..    --..    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100001 01111010 01111010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#122 &#122 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 007A 007A 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

386792927871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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