See dazzle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"text": "Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.",
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},
{
"text": "Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.",
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{
"ref": "1834, Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde, volume 1, page 45:",
"text": "An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.",
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"To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness."
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"(transitive) To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness."
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "enlluernar"
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{
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǐ mùxuàn",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "使目眩"
},
{
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{
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"word": "mirigi"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "ravi"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "sokaista"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "häikäistä"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "éblouir"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "trasvirar"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
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"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "gl",
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "alabarar"
},
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"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "frenxer"
},
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"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"lang": "Gallurese",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "abbaglià"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "blenden"
},
{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "thampóno",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "θαμπώνω"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "sinvér",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "סנוור"
},
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"word": "elkápráztat"
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"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "dazlar"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "häjätä"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "abbagliare"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "abbacinare"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"alt": "めをくらませる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "me o kuramaseru",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "目を眩ませる"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"alt": "げんわくさせる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "genwaku saseru",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "眩惑させる"
},
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
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"code": "zdj",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "uzusa"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "no",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "blende"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "blinde"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "ofuscar"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oslepljátʹ",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ослепля́ть"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oslepítʹ",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
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],
"word": "ослепи́ть"
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"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "alluinai"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"tags": [
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "abbaglià"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "deslumbrar"
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"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "obnubilar"
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"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "encandilar"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "blända"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "asblawi"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 8",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "dallu"
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{
"text": "The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance."
],
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[
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[
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],
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"(transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance."
],
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"word": "impress"
},
{
"word": "overpower"
}
],
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smajvam",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "смайвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "поразявам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "enlluernar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "使驚奇"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǐ jīngqí",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "使惊奇"
},
{
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"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "oslnit"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "sokaista"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "éblouir"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "trasvirar"
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{
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"sense": "figuratively",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "ofuscar"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "alabarar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "abraiar"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "verblüffen"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "faszinieren"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "bezaubern"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "betören"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "elámít"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "lenyűgöz"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "blindigar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "impressionare"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "abbagliare"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"alt": "むちゅうにさせる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "muchū ni saseru",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "夢中にさせる"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "lv",
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"sense": "figuratively",
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "blende"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "ofuscar"
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poražátʹ",
"sense": "figuratively",
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"word": "поража́ть"
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "izumljátʹ",
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"_dis1": "0 100 0",
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"_dis1": "0 100 0",
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"ref": "1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries:",
"text": "For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy:",
"text": "[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.",
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"To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness."
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"(intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness."
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"word": "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"
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"_dis1": "79 21 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"tags": [
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"word": "Blendlicht"
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{
"_dis1": "79 21 0 0",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "cakācaundh",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "चकाचौंध"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 21 0 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"word": "kōnakonako"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 21 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskrjáščijsja svet",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"tags": [
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"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "deslumbrar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "obnubilar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "encandilar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "blända"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "asblawi"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "confuse the sight",
"word": "dallu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smajvam",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "смайвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "porazjavam",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "поразявам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "enlluernar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "使驚奇"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǐ jīngqí",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "使惊奇"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "oslnit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "sokaista"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "éblouir"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "trasvirar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "eslumar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "escandear"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "esbellar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "ofuscar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "alabarar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "abraiar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "verblüffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "faszinieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "bezaubern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "betören"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "elámít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "lenyűgöz"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "blindigar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "impressionare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "abbagliare"
},
{
"alt": "むちゅうにさせる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "muchū ni saseru",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "夢中にさせる"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "apžilbināt"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "blende"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "ofuscar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poražátʹ",
"sense": "figuratively",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "поража́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "porazítʹ",
"sense": "figuratively",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "порази́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izumljátʹ",
"sense": "figuratively",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "изумля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izumítʹ",
"sense": "figuratively",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "изуми́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "apabullar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "obnubilar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "encandilar"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "asblawi"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "esblawter"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "figuratively",
"word": "syfrdanu"
}
],
"word": "dazzle"
}
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{
"word": "antidazzle"
}
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"1": "en",
"2": "daze",
"3": "le",
"id2": "verbal frequentative"
},
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"name": "suffix"
}
],
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"form": "dazzles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A light of dazzling brilliancy."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly."
],
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"(figurative) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly."
],
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"countable",
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"uncountable"
]
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{
"ref": "1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition)",
"text": "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 […]"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts, page 176:",
"text": "Zebras move in herds which are known as \"dazzles.\" When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22:",
"text": "I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A herd of zebra."
],
"links": [
[
"herd",
"herd"
],
[
"zebra",
"zebra"
]
],
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"(uncommon) A herd of zebra."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncommon",
"uncountable"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Dazzle camouflage."
],
"links": [
[
"Dazzle camouflage",
"dazzle camouflage"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Dazzle camouflage."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈdæzəl/"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dazzle.wav",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-æzəl"
}
],
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{
"sense": "group of zebras",
"word": "herd"
},
{
"sense": "group of zebras",
"word": "zeal"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Blendlicht"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "cakācaundh",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "चकाचौंध"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"word": "kōnakonako"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskrjáščijsja svet",
"sense": "a very bright light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "искря́щийся свет"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "heard of zebras",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "flock"
}
],
"word": "dazzle"
}
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