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DAZZLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering
Example:
I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.
Classified under:
Similar:
confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light
Example:
she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance
Classified under:
Similar:
blind; unsighted (unable to see)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dazzle
Context examples:
Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I should have said so, perhaps, but a livid, vivid spark leapt out of a cloud at which I was looking, and there was a crack, a crash, and a close rattling peal; and I thought only of hiding my dazzled eyes against Mr. Rochester's shoulder.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In front of them, and at the end of the road of yellow brick, was a big gate, all studded with emeralds that glittered so in the sun that even the painted eyes of the Scarecrow were dazzled by their brilliancy.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Suddenly his eye gave a blink, as if it had met something that either dazzled or shocked its pupil; turning, he said in more rapid accents than he had hitherto used—"Miss Temple, Miss Temple, what—what is that girl with curled hair? Red hair, ma'am, curled—curled all over?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Anything more exquisite than her appearance, in her purple habit, with her Amazon's cap of black velvet placed gracefully above the long curls that kissed her cheek and floated to her shoulders, can scarcely be imagined: and it was thus she would enter the rustic building, and glide through the dazzled ranks of the village children.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Will you walk this way, ma'am? said the girl; and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me, contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured; when I could see, however, a cosy and agreeable picture presented itself to my view.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
