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Definitions: Daze |
DazeNoun1. The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's deathleft him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock". 2. Confusion characterized by lack of clarity. Verb1. To cause someone to lose clear vision, esp. from intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights". 2. Overcome esp. with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "daze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonyms: DazeSynonyms: fog (n), haze (n), shock (n), stupor (n), bedaze (v), bedazzle (v), dazzle (v), stun (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise aprehensions; be in a daze, bulldoze; faze, feeze; give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm; alarm, startle, scare, cry " wolf," disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten, terrify; astound; fright from one's propriety; fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses; awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on the agony. |
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. | |
Crosswords: Daze |
| English words defined with "daze": Dase, dazedly, Dazing ♦ torpidly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "daze": Dulcarnon. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Take a nap like Rip Van Winkle, daze dreamin' again. ("Mountain Music"; performing artist: ALABAMA) MY HEAD'S SPINNING, BOY I'M IN A DAZE ("Never Ever"; performing artist: All Saints) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Arabian Daze (1963) The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) Uragiri mono wa jigoku daze (1962) Hoppy Daze (1961) Nanatsu no kao no otoko daze (1960) | |
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| "Daze" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.26% of the time. "Daze" is used about 107 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.26% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.93% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.93% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "daze": in a daze. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
school daze | 57 |
lazy daze | 53 |
daze grey | 29 |
daze | 28 |
blue daze | 26 |
summer daze | 15 |
daze happy rv | 15 |
glory daze | 11 |
eric daze | 11 |
daze reader | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "daze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trullos (befuddle, bewilder, freak, intoxicate, overwhelm, stultify, stun, stupefy), shushatje (bewilderment, distraction, nonplus, perplexity), shushat (distract, dumbfound, flummox, pose, stun), shushas (distract, dumbfound, flummox, pose, stun), habis (amuse, astonish, astound, bemuse, confound, dazzle, knock, wow, zap), habi (amazement, astonishment, surprise, wonder, wonderment), çudit (amaze, astonish, knock, marvel, surprise), çudis (amaze, astonish, knock, marvel, surprise), çudi (astonishment, maggot, marvel, miracle, oddity, surprise, wonder, wonderwork). (various references) | |
Arabic | في حالة ذهول, فقد الوعي (pass out), إنبهار (dazzle), أصاب بالدوار (dizzy), دوخان, دوخ (beat about the bush, stun, swim), دوار (dizziness, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, swinging, turn, vertigo, voluble), بهر (bedazzle, blind, dazzle, illusory, mesmerize, offend). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зашеметявам (besot, rock, stagger, stun), замаяност (dizziness), замайвам (mystify, rock, spin, stupefy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 茫然, 暈眩 (giddy). (various references) | |
Czech | oslnit (blind, dazzle, fascinate), omámit (fuddle, intoxicate, opiate), omámení (stupor). (various references) | |
Farsi | گیج کردن (Astonish, Befuddle, Bemuse, Bewilder, Confound, Confuse, Distract, Fox, Fuzz, Knockdown, Muddle, Perplex, Petrify, Stump, Stun, Stupefy), خیرگی , دراثرضربت یاسرماویانورزیاد. (various references) | |
Finnish | kiille (mica). (various references) | |
French | stupéfaction, petite pierre brillante, perdre conscience, mica, ahurissement, ahurir, étourdir. (various references) | |
German | dusel (fluke, fuddle, luck), betäubung (anaesthesia, anaesthetization, anesthetic, anesthetization, dazing, deadening, numbing, stunning, stupefaction, torpidity), betäuben (anaesthetize, anesthetize, benumb, deaden, deafen, drug, ease, intoxicate, kill, numb, put out, put under, stun, stunning, to anesthetize, to intoxicate, to stun, to stupefy), benommenheit (dizziness, drowsiness, lightheadedness, light-headedness, muzziness, numbness, obnubilation, stupor), benommen machen (stun, stupefy), benebeln (make reel). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπλήσσω (amaze, astound, bedazzle, bemuse, startle, stun, surprise), σάστισμα (confusion), ζαλίζω (befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, discomfit, flummox, mystify, stagger, stun, stupefy), αποσβολώνω (astound, disconcert, gobsmack, nonplus). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"מם (confound, dumbfound, overwhelm, stun), ל"לום (batter, buffet, pound, smite, sock, strike). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kábulat (sopor, stupor, torpor, trip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak sadar (asleep, unaware), memusingkan (hassle, queasy), membutakan, membisingkan (ear-deafening). (various references) | |
Italian | stupore (amazement, astonishment, stupefaction, stupor, stuporous state, surprise, wonder, wonderment), stordire (deafen, dull one's senses, dumbfound, stun, stupefy), stordimento (lightheadedness, stunning, stupefaction, torpor), sbalordimento, istupidire (befuddle, make stupid, numb, stupefy), intontire (be dazed, be stunned, stun), intontimento, frastornare (bother, derange, disturb, thwart, thwarted). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 夢中 (delirium, ecstasy, engrossment, trance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むちゅう (delirium, ecstasy, engrossment, in the fog, trance). (various references) | |
Manx | doalgaanee (hocus-pocus), dallaghey (befog, blind, dazzle, glare, glare as light), cur er shaghryn (bewilder, disorientate, mislead). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torpor (dullness, lethargy, numerable, slumber, torpor), surpreender (amaze, astonish, astound, catch, come upon, get hold of, overtake, startle, surprise, surprising, take by surprise), ofuscar (bedazzle, bedim, blear, blur, dazzle, dim, obfuscate, outshine, overshoe, sadden), ofuscação (dim out, obfuscation, obscuration), estupefação (amaze, consternation, stupefaction), espanto (amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, fright, marvel, scare, surprise, wonder, wonderment, wonderwork), espantar (astonish, astound, flabbergast, run wild, scare, surprise, whisk), confusão (abashment, baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confounding, confusion, disarray, discomfort, discomposure, disturbed, Donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul up, fuddle, hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry, hurry-scurry, imbrue, intricate, involution, involvement, jumble, kettledrum, labyrinth, macaronic, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, Ravel, rough and tumble, rout, shuffle, situation whereby one and the same person unites two capacities for example debtor-creditor, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), confundir (addle, astonish, astound, baffle, befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, confusing, confute, dazzle, disarray, disconcert, distracted, dizzy, dumbfound, embarrass, embrasure, embroil, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, fog, gravel, interfuse, intermingle, jumble, maze, mistake for, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, Mull, nonplus, obfuscate, obscure, overwhelm, perplex, put out, puzzle, rattle, Ravel, stagger), aturdir (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, confuse, deafen, din, obfuscate, stun), atordoar (amaze, appal, deafen, din, dismay, dizzy, hag, lay siege to, mope, puzzle, stagger, stun, stupefy), assombro (amaze, amazement, astonishment, marvel, miracle, stupefaction, wonderment), assombrar (amaze, astonish, astound, bemuse, haunt, petrify, stupefy, surprise), admiração (admiration, admiring, amazement, astonishment, awe, marvel, surprise, wonder, worship). (various references) | |
Romanian | zãpãci (addle, bedazzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, disconcert, dizzy, embrangle, entangle, flurry, gravel, jumble, knot, maze, muddle, muss, nonplus, pie, pose, shuffle), zãpãcealã (Babel, bewilderment, confusion, discomfiture, disorder, distraction, entanglement, flurry, fuddle, haze, jumble, kerfuffle, mix up, muddle, topsy turvy), uluire (amazement, bewilderment), ului (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, confuse, dazzle, dumbfound, flabbergast, flurry, stun). (various references) | |
Russian | ошеломлять (bemuse, flabbergast, overwhelm, perplex, stun), изумлять (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, flabbergast, stupefy), изумление (amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, startlement, wonder). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | omama (intoxication), ošamutiti (besot, obfuscate, stun, stupefy), ošamućenost (dizziness). (various references) | |
Spanish | deslumbrar (bedazzle, blind, dazzle, glare), aturdir (abash, befuddle, bemuse, confound, confuse, distract, drug, fluster, fuddle, intoxicate, knock out, muddle, numb, stun, stupefy). (various references) | |
Swedish | glimmer (gleaming, glitter, mica), förvirra (addle, baffle, bamboozle, befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, disconcert, disorient, disorientate, distract, dizzy, embarrass, flummox, flurry, fluster, fuddle, gravel, Kittle, perplex, unsettle, upset), blända (bedazzle, blind, dazzle, fascinate). (various references) | |
Turkish | sersemlik (dizziness, dullness, fuddle, giddiness, muddle, silliness, stupidity, stupor), sersemletmek (bemuse, bewilder, dizzy, dull, fuddle, hocus, make dizzy, make giddy, send smb. reeling, stun, stupefy), büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch), şaşkınlık (amazement, astonishment, being surprised, bewilderment, blankness, confusion, consternation, discomfiture, embarrassment, fuddle, gape, maze, muddle, nonplus, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, surprise, wonder, wonderment), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow), afallatmak (amaze, astonish, astound, confuse, flabbergast, floor, flummox, stump, stun, stupefy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | слюда (mica, talc), вражати (amaze, appal, appall, bemuse, concuss, dazzle, impress, overwhelm, shine out, shock), заціпеніння (numbness, petrifaction, petrification, rigor, stupor), заклякнути (freeze up), заморожувати (block, chill, congeal, deepfreeze, freeze, ice), замерзнути, здивування (amaze, amazement, astonishment, marvel, perplex, quandary, surprise, wonder), приголомшувати (appal, appall, astound, bemuse, daunt, dizzy, doze, dumbfound, jar, overwhelm, stun), подив (amaze, astonishment, perplexity, puzzle, wonder, wonderment), дивувати (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, buffalo, enamor, enamour, flabbergast, stupefy, surprise). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng choáng váng sự loá mắt, sự sững sờ tình trạng mê mụ, sự quáng mắt, sự ngạc nhiên (admiration, astonishment, surprisal, wonderment), sự kinh ngạc (amazement, consternation). (various references) | |
Welsh | syfrdanu (astound, stun, stupefy), pensyfrdanu (bewilder, stun). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | obstupefacti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "daze": dazed, dazedly, dazedness, dazednesses, dazes. (additional references) | |
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"Daze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adaza, adaze, Adza, adzee, adzel, adzer, daaz, daaze, dabe, dae, daez, daeza, daise, daize, daje, Danza, Danzega, D'arzew, darzi, dasa, Dase, dasf, Dasi, D'asq, dauz, dauze, dave, daxe, daye, daz, dazee, dazel, dazem, dazen, Dazer, dazi, dazix, dazo, Dazs, dazt, dazu, dazy, dazz, dese, deze, Dezi, dezl, Dezo, diez, dise, dize, dizee, dizey, dizi, dizzen, dizzo, doase, doaze, doza, dozem, dozi, Dozo, Draza, Drazen, Drazh, duzel, duzi, duzo, dz, dzat, dzo, Odazzi, tazi, tazze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "daze" (pronounced dā"z) |
| 3 | d ā" z | dais, days, todays. |
| 2 | -ā" z | ablaze, allays, amaze, appraise, arrays, baize, ballets, bays, berets, betrays, blase, blaze, bouquets, braise, cabernets, cafes, chaise, chalets, clays, cliches, communiques, conveys, craze, decays, defrays, delays, dismays, displays, dossiers, essays, faze, filets, gays, gaze, glaze, Grays, graze, Hays, haze, jays, Kays, lase, lays, leis, leys, Lyonnaise, Maes, maize, malaise, Mays, maze, morays, nays, obeys, okays, pays, phase, phrase, plays, polonaise, portrays, praise, prays, preys, raise, Rase, rays, raze, reappraise, repays, rephrase, replays, Res, shays, sprays, stays, strays, surveys, sways, trays, urokinase, ways, weighs, yeas. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: adze. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-z" | |
-1 letter: adz, zed. | |
-2 letters: ad, ae, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-z" | |
+1 letter: adoze, adzes, azide, dazed, dazes, fazed, gazed, hazed, lazed, mazed, razed. | |
+2 letters: amazed, azides, azoted, blazed, brazed, crazed, dazzle, feazed, glazed, grazed, jazzed, lazied, razeed, razzed, zagged, zander, zapped. | |
+3 letters: agnized, anodize, begazed, cadenza, damozel, dazedly, dazzled, dazzler, dazzles, deglaze, deutzia, dialyze, diazine, diazole, dualize, fazenda, huzzaed, mazedly, razored, teazled, unfazed, unrazed, upgazed, waltzed, weazand, zanders, zedoary, zenaida, zonated. | |
+4 letters: agatized, agenized, agonized, amazedly, analyzed, anodized, anodizes, apprized, arabized, atomized, azotised, azotized, baptized, bedazzle, blazoned, brazened, cadenzas, capsized, credenza, damozels, dazzlers, deglazed, deglazes, denazify, deutzias, dialyzed, dialyzer, dialyzes, diazepam, diazines, diazoles, dualized, dualizes, emblazed, faradize, fazendas, frazzled, gazetted, gazumped, hazarded, huzzahed, idealize, imblazed, kyanized, laicized, mazaedia, nazified, ozonated, realized, reglazed, rendzina, stanzaed, teazeled, thiazide, unglazed, vizarded, weazands, zemindar, zenaidas. | |
+5 letters: activized, advertize, alkalized, amortized, aphorized, arborized, archaized, autolyzed, avianized, banalized, bedazzled, bedazzles, botanized, calorized, canalized, canonized, caponized, catalyzed, crazyweed, credenzas, cruzadoes, curarized, czardases, dazedness, deglazing, diabolize, dialyzate, dialyzers, diazepams, diazotize, dogmatize, dramatize, equalized, faradized, faradizes, feudalize, finalized, focalized, gazehound, graecized, hebraized, hepatized, humanized, hydrazide, hydrazine, idealized, idealizer, idealizes, imidazole, japanized, jarovized, laterized, latinized, legalized, lespedeza, localized, maximized, mazaedium, melanized, metalized, moralized, nasalized, notarized, organized, outblazed, outdazzle, paganized, paralyzed, patinized, pearlized, penalized, polarized, quantized, racemized, randomize, rendzinas, romanized, ruralized, salinized, sanitized, satirized, solarized, stargazed, teazelled, tetanized, thiazides, totalized, trapezoid, urbanized, valorized, vandalize, vaporized, varisized, velarized, vitalized, vocalized, womanized, zapateado, zebrawood, zedoaries, zemindars, zemindary, zigzagged, zinfandel. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 007A 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38679271 |
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