dazzle
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dazzle englanniksi
To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
(ux)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(quote-book)|title=Philip van Artevelde|volume=1|page=45|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ugUJAAAAQAAJ&dq=dazzle&pg=PA45v=onepage|text=An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
(syn)
To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
(quote-book)
(quote-book)|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BudiAAAAcAAJ&dq=dazle&pg=PA61v=onepage|text=… I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.
A light of dazzling brilliancy.
Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
1958, Laurens Van der Post, ''The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory'' (1998 David Coulson edition):
- We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly (..)
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