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daze
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Word definitions for daze in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Daze \Daze\, n. The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. [Colloq.] (Mining) A glittering stone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., dasen , perhaps from Old Norse *dasa (compare dasask "to become weary," with reflexive suffix -sk ). Or perhaps from Middle Dutch dasen "act silly." Perhaps originally "to make weary with cold," which is the sense of Icelandic dasask (from the ...
Usage examples of daze.
Dazed from the dreamlike state, I was quickly brought back to reality when Adeem started screaming in pain.
Nysander shouted the command, and the stag form shifted and dissolved, leaving Alec in a dazed heap on the grass.
Blinking slowly, his worn gentle face turned stony, the Wan searched the dazed faces of the Amar until he saw the one he wanted.
For months, Dornan had been having god knows what nightmares about Tammy maybe sitting in seven separate garbage bags in a ditch alongside some dirt road in Alabama, or getting married to a red-haired, pompous psychologist, or wandering New York in an amnesiac daze.
Her dazed aquamarine eyes wide above her spread fingertips connected with his spectacular dark golden gaze.
Surrounding Atene, they led her from the Sanctuary, accompanied by her uncle the Shaman, who, as it seemed to me, either through fatigue or fear, could scarcely stand upon his feet, but stood blinking his dim eyes as though the light dazed him.
Still half dazed, he found himself trying to start the motor, wondering if Brye had put it out of commission.
The smoke choked them, the sweat ran into their eyes, and the gunfire deafened and dazed them.
I was still dazed, staring about me at the shambles we had created when Chubby reached me.
Dazed and bruised, nevertheless she recovered first, and, picking up the cosh which he had dropped, she hurled it over the tops of the nearest trees.
The others were dazed at first, but as remembrance came back to them they cried and sobbed in a hysterical manner.
And in the end I went, wet, hatless, and dazed in the morning light, and entered that awful door in Benefit Street which I had left ajar, and which still swung cryptically in full sight of the early householders to whom I dared not speak.
In spite of their placid, dazed, beatific smiles and grimaces, they were a kind of curious sadness, in their weird, bright patterns of love-paint on the scrawn of flesh, in their protest bangles and their disaffiliated bells, crushing the flower blossoms in a dreamy imitation of adult acts that for them had all been bleached of any significance or purpose.
The daze was lifting from Edh, but unearthliness brimmed the hazel eyes.
She was spellbound, rooted to the spot, dazed by the sight of the unconscious expellees in the eerie green subdued lights of the enormous hold.