dazzle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of…

   To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.

   • Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
   • Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.
   • Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
2. 2

   To render incapable of thinking clearly

   To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

   • The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
3. 3

   To be overpowered by light

   To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

   • For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.
   • […] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.
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   1. 4

      A light of dazzling brilliancy.

   2. 5

      Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.

   3. 6

      A herd of zebra.

      • 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 […]
      • Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]
      • I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.
   4. 7

      Dazzle camouflage.

The neighborhood

• synonymherdgroup of zebras
• synonymzealgroup of zebras
• neighborif you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull