Crossword clues for dazing
dazing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Daze \Daze\ (d[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dazed (d[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dazing.] [OE. dasen, prob. from Icel. dasask to become weary, a reflexive verb; cf. Sw. dasa to lie idle, and OD. daesen to be foolish, insane, daes, dwaes, D. dwaas, foolish, insane, AS. dw[=ae]s, dysig, stupid. [root]71. Cf. Dizzy, Doze.] To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.
--Spenser.
Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world.
--Sir H.
Taylor.
He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an
odd though a sufficient substitute for interest.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of daze English)
Usage examples of "dazing".
And over all of them the dim dazzle of shadows flickering and changing, dazing her, terrifying her that she was going to miss the key moment.
Benvenuto clawed after him upon the ground, and got a boot hard in the hollow of his shoulder, but he embraced it round the exploding pain, and heaved upward with all his strength, hoisting his enemy backwards to fall with a dazing crash against the cobbles.
Yet, by blundering trial and dazing error, he worked that faint far point into the target circle and engaged the pilot.
When the creature saw that some grunt or squeal had been understood, she would strike her forelimbs vigorously together, battering the superheated gas with dazing vibrations.
Brilliant and dazing as the secret interior of a jewel, light flared up from a dozen majestic torches wrought in copper green with verdigris.
His head had been rocked against his headrest at an angle where the padding was of little help, dazing him.
Blood poured out of the colonist’s broken nose, dazing him long enough for Will to shove his legs through.