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Bedazzle

Bedazzle \Be*daz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedazzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedazzling (?).] To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. ``Bedazzled with the sun.''
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bedazzle

1590s, from be- + dazzle (v.). Related: Bedazzled; bedazzling.

Wiktionary
bedazzle

vb. 1 (label en transitive) To confuse or disarm by dazzling. 2 (label en transitive informal) To decorate with sequins or other sparkly material; to bespangle.

WordNet
bedazzle

v. to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights" [syn: dazzle, daze]

Usage examples of "bedazzle".

Glaukus the fisherman, nibbling the herbs beside the sea and turning green with immortality, gives us fables out of Herodotus, gives us the Uttarakurus and the Jambu tree, dangles a hundred gleaming myths before our bedazzled ears, so that we want to cry out, Here!

Jagan Grantforth had thoroughly bedazzled, and seduced, an unsuspecting, gullible Trilby Elliot of Port Rumor.

The promise of wealth through marriage bedazzles Wulfstan as he cares nothing for battle.

Remember the girls in the alehouses and inns, and the servants at the castles and manor houses, and the wives and daughters who were bedazzled by your skill and gave themselves to you so willingly.

His second besteven his third bestwere quite sufficient to bedazzle any observers on the road home.

In her mind she concentrated upon it, bedazzled by the pulsation of its light as if she had never seen it so before.

And yet here, in a tunnel into a cliff of an asteroid eight miles in diameter Here, suspended in some kind of cocoon ten feet above the ground, wrapped in a bewildering nest that seemed to have neither substance nor form Here, surrounded by bedazzling machines and instruments that no Earthly mind had ever created Here, high above the floor, rested some kind of alien creature, some representative of what Storm guessed was an incredibly advanced creature.

Robert Hopper Softly in a natty black suit stood in a patch of bedazzling grass, briefcase in hand, a modernistic pair of dark glasses covering much of his face.

The Faêran made their bedazzled guests welcome, bedecking them with garlands of flowers.

So bedazzled were they by this living jewel in their midst that her hosts accepted it.

And in his head whirled all the colors and impressions of his weird dreams, so that he was, even as he walked, still bedazzled with visions.

But Far-Awn’s vision was already bedazzled from too much brightness, too glazed with fatigue, with hunger, with thirst to see the first sun’s magnificent leave-taking.

Remember the queen of the Nile, Cleopatra, who bedazzled Caesar himself when she was a young girl and whose beauty, undiminished half a century later, led Mark Antony to abandon all other loyalties and defy the might of Rome.

What she I couldn't understand was why Skif didn't seem particularly affected, but Tre'valen looked just as dazed and bedazzled as she felt.

I tried to tell myself that I was simply bedazzled, but it is not simple, nor it is bedazzlement.