Dazzle
verb
To shine brightly in a way that blinds or confuses the sight.
The sun dazzled in his eyes and made it hard to see where he was going.
Often appears as...
- dazzle with brilliance
- dazzle with light
verb
To impress deeply; astonish with delight.
Her singing talent dazzled the audience.
Often appears as...
- dazzle with talent
- dazzle with style
Usage tips
Approving
noun
Brightness enough to blind or confuse.
He had to squint against the dazzle of the morning sun.
Often appears as...
- dazzle of light
- dazzle of brilliance
verb
To shine brightly in a way that blinds or confuses the sight.
The sun dazzled in his eyes and made it hard to see where he was going.
Often appears as...
- dazzle with brilliance
- dazzle with light
verb
To impress deeply; astonish with delight.
Her singing talent dazzled the audience.
Often appears as...
- dazzle with talent
- dazzle with style
Usage tips
Approving
noun
Brightness enough to blind or confuse.
He had to squint against the dazzle of the morning sun.
Often appears as...
- dazzle of light
- dazzle of brilliance
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Not Literally Blinding
While dazzle implies strong brightness, it doesn't always cause actual blindness.
The jewel's dazzle caught everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Confusion
Use dazzling light to describe scenarios where someone is confused or disoriented by brightness.
The dazzle from the strobe lights left him disoriented.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Dazzle can be used metaphorically to describe something that is strikingly impressive.
Her witty remarks had a certain dazzle that caught everyone off-guard.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Literally Blinding
While dazzle implies strong brightness, it doesn't always cause actual blindness.
The jewel's dazzle caught everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Confusion
Use dazzling light to describe scenarios where someone is confused or disoriented by brightness.
The dazzle from the strobe lights left him disoriented.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Dazzle can be used metaphorically to describe something that is strikingly impressive.
Her witty remarks had a certain dazzle that caught everyone off-guard.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Literally Blinding
While dazzle implies strong brightness, it doesn't always cause actual blindness.
The jewel's dazzle caught everyone's attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Confusion
Use dazzling light to describe scenarios where someone is confused or disoriented by brightness.
The dazzle from the strobe lights left him disoriented.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Dazzle can be used metaphorically to describe something that is strikingly impressive.
Her witty remarks had a certain dazzle that caught everyone off-guard.
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The most colorful...
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Tom Chatfield: 7 ways...
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Snowflake Science to...
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Dancing Birds of...
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Child Kung Fu Boot Camp...
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What makes a language......
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Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
And what we're doing is a series of journeys to the ethnosphere where we're going to take our audience to places of such cultural wonder that they cannot help but come away dazzled by what they have seen, and hopefully, therefore, embrace gradually, one by one,
Video examples
The most colorful...
This shimmering, dazzling, dancing display of light comes about from a confluence of chemistry, geology, and optics that define opals from their earliest moments, deep underground. It’s there that an opal begins its life as something surprisingly water.
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Tom Chatfield: 7 ways...
It all feeds in as minute reinforcement. Fourth, feedback. This is absolutely crucial, and virtuality is dazzling at delivering this. If you look at some of the most intractable problems in the world today that we've been hearing amazing things about,
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These animals are also...
Without the aid of these algae, filter-feeding corals, clams, and sponges would not gain enough nutrition in the nutrient-poor tropical ocean, and the dazzling coral reefs they build simply would not exist. Mixotrophy even cuts both
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Love and hormones PIPE...
this world would agree with that another example would be ylang-ylang the concert pianist dare dazzling Flair charisma youthful barato bravado daredevil extremes these are two very different personalities but they've got the same
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Snowflake Science to...
fragile snow crystals that dazzle us in an array of shapes and sizes. But there's a lot more to these intricate ice formations than meets the eye. Turns out that by looking a lot closer, snowflakes may also help us save lives.
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Dancing Birds of...
world they're the birds of paradise this tiny jewel is the king bird of paradise the smallest of all like the rest he is a dazzling courtship display
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Sights and Sounds of...
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Child Kung Fu Boot Camp...
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
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Lee Unkrich
American Director
We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.
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Frederick Soddy
English Scientist
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
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Pierre Loti
French Writer
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
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Simone Schwarz-Bart
French Novelist
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
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Anthony Doerr
American Writer
The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.
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Herbie Hancock
American Musician
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
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Huston Smith
American Theologian
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
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Elizabeth Kostova
American Author
I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
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Lee Unkrich
American Director
We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.
Quote examples
Frederick Soddy
English Scientist
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
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Pierre Loti
French Writer
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
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Simone Schwarz-Bart
French Novelist
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
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Anthony Doerr
American Writer
The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.
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Herbie Hancock
American Musician
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
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Huston Smith
American Theologian
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
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Elizabeth Kostova
American Author
I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
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