dazzle

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light of dazzling brilliancy. countable,uncountable
  2. Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly. countable,figuratively,uncountable
  3. A herd of zebra. collective,countable,uncommon,uncountable
    — 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 […]
  4. Dazzle camouflage. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness. transitive
    — Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
  2. To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. figuratively,transitive
    — The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
  3. To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. intransitive
    — For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.

词形变化

dazzles present,singular,third-person dazzling participle,present dazzled participle,past dazzled past dazzles plural

词源

词源 1
From daze + -le, a frequentative form.
词源 2
From daze + -le, a frequentative form.
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