Dictionary entry

Dazzle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Daz″zle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Dazzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dazzling (?).] [Freq. of daze.] 1. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.

Those heavenly shapes

Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze

Insufferably bright. Milton.

An unreflected light did never yet

Dazzle the vision feminine. Sir H. Taylor.

2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. “Dazzled and drove back his enemies.” Shak.