Crossword clues for dazzled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dazzle \Daz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dazzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dazzling.] [Freq. of daze.]
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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. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. ``Dazzled and drove back his enemies.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: dazzle)
WordNet
adj. having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light; "she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance"
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
Usage examples of "dazzled".
She had some trouble before she could take off her chemise, but as it is only the first step that costs, she let it fall off, and though she held her two hands before her she dazzled me, in spite of myself, by the beauty of her form.
At last I persuaded myself that what had occurred was after all in no way extraordinary, and that I would certainly have considered it at first a very common occurrence if I had not been dazzled by the wonderful beauty of the nun, and blinded by my own vanity.
The young girl, dazzled by so much gold, and not knowing what to do with it, asked her friend to take care of it for her until such time as she should leave the convent to get married.
When the rascal saw that I had taken up my position, he did not keep me waiting, for, getting up, he presented to my dazzled gaze, not only the secret treasures of his sweetheart, but his own also.
I was dazzled by her beauty, but not being a rich man I felt that I must set my wits to work if I wanted to enjoy her.
The probabilities are that she was a girl of the most usual sort, but greatly attached to Casanova who, even in his poverty, must have dazzled her as a being from another world.
Silky hung at the net beside her, moving clumsily, stunned by his wound or by the sonics that had dazzled the mers.
Ede the God, most people attended the light-offerings not as witnesses to perfection but because they liked to be dazzled and awed.
This dazzled the eyes of all the men and women sitting on their benches.
Since we had chosen to sit fireless, our eyes were not flame dazzled and we could see who came in.
The noon sun struck down through the slot in the dome, hit the surface of the well water, and dazzled us with luminosity.
Snow dazzled against the blueness, thin threads of spray blown off the high peaks.
The light through the lozenge-shaped windows dazzled me where it fell on the mosaic floor.
The city and the estuary lay below us, and the sun dazzled off the morning sea.
Whatever happened on the long voyage Sunside, she would be growing up among such Sunsiders as Jason was, dazzled by them as he himself had been.