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

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.

Crosswords: Dazzle

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)

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

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

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.

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

• Dazzle (reference)

• The Rainbow Fish and Dazzle the Dinosaur (reference)

• Baby Dazzle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dazzle and Nostalgia: Cello Favorites (reference)

• Dazzle (reference)

• Dazzle Ships (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• DAZZLE TV PHOTOSHOW (reference)

• Dazzle Hollywood Dv Bridge Mac Firewire Digital-analog Converter (reference)

• Dazzle Multimedia 6-in-1 Reader (reference)

• Dazzle Multimedia DM-2200 Hollywood DV Bridge (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Razzle Dazzle - 4 Piece Bedding Set (reference)

• Razzle Dazzle - Fancy Sheet (reference)

• Razzle Dazzle - Valance (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

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

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.

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 , 熀 , 目炫 (Dazzled, Dazzling), 炫 (to show off), 晃 (sway, to shade), 曜 (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)

cæcare. (various references)

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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-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.

+1 letter: dazzled, dazzler, dazzles.

+2 letters: bedazzle, dazzlers, frazzled.

+3 letters: bedazzled, bedazzles, outdazzle.

+4 letters: bedazzling, outdazzled, outdazzles.

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