Definition of "dazzle" in English

verb

1. (transitive) 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.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

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

3. (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

noun

1. A light of dazzling brilliancy.

2. (figurative) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.

3. (uncommon, collective) 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 […]

4. (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.