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DAZE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confusion characterized by lack of clarity
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("daze" is a kind of...):
confusedness; confusion; disarray; mental confusion; muddiness (a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior)
Derivation:
daze (to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
Example:
he was numb with shock
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("daze" is a kind of...):
stupefaction (a feeling of stupefied astonishment)
Derivation:
daze (overcome as with astonishment or disbelief)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they daze ... he / she / it dazes
Past simple: dazed
Past participle: dazed
-ing form: dazing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
Example:
The news stunned her
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "daze" is one way to...):
desensitise; desensitize (cause not to be sensitive)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
The bad news will daze him
The performance is likely to daze Sue
Derivation:
daze (the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally)
Sense 2
Meaning:
To cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
Example:
She was dazzled by the bright headlights
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "daze" is one way to...):
blind (render unable to see)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
daze (confusion characterized by lack of clarity)
Context examples:
Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning train.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And all the while I sat in a half-daze, the drunken riot of the steerage breaking through the bulkhead, the man I feared and the woman I loved talking on and on.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The old lady was too dazed with grief to be of any use to us, but at her side was a white-faced young lady, who introduced herself as Miss Violet Westbury, the fiancée of the dead man, and the last to see him upon that fatal night.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Very stiff and sore of foot I was in the morning, and quite dazed by the beating of drums and marching of troops, which seemed to hem me in on every side when I went down towards the long narrow street.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It cowed me more than the pain, and I began to obey him at once, walking straight in at the door and towards the parlour, where our sick old buccaneer was sitting, dazed with rum.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was too dazed to think, though he was aware that he did not like himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He passed his hand over his forehead like a man who is half dazed, and then fell rather than sat down upon a chair.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was dazed for a moment, but when he saw the sunlight streaming in through the edges of the shutters he thought he was late, and expressed his fear.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
With a dazed face the banker made out the required check.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Since then she has looked like a woman in a dream, half dazed, and with terror always lurking in her eyes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
