Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dazzled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dazzle \Daz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dazzled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dazzling}.] [Freq. of daze.]
1. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by
brilliance of light.
Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly,
with their blaze Insufferably bright. --Milton.
An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision
feminine. --Sir H.
Taylor.
2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any
kind. ``Dazzled and drove back his enemies.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dazzled
adj 1: having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense
light; "she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's
brilliance"
2: stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering; "I fall back
dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I
myself, caused the sun to rise."- `Chanticler' by Rostand
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