Daze
[deɪz] or [dez]
Definition
(noun.) confusion characterized by lack of clarity.
(noun.) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; 'his mother's death left him in a daze'; 'he was numb with shock'.
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
(n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
(n.) A glittering stone.
Checker: Sabina
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Dazzle, blind.[2]. Bewilder, confuse, perplex.
Typist: Ruth
Definition
v.t. to stun to stupefy.
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Examples
- But the sickly daze of the swoon made her still miserably faint. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And that lad Charley that looks after the horse is all in a daze about it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Be dazed if I should like a relation of mine to have been made such a fool of by a man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He sat silent, dazed with inarticulate pain. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- What with her natural blindness, and what with the change from dark to light, she stood as one dazed, blinking about her to see where and who we were. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Fortunately he was most of his time dazed and half gone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He seemed not so much sorry, as scared and dazed like, by what had happened. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I stood for a minute or two to collect myself, for I was dazed with the horror of the thing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If they wouldn't I'll be dazed! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Your words have dazed me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Pretty, clever Miss Fairlie, and poor dazed Anne Catherick were nearer to each other then than they are now! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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