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bedazzle

Other forms: bedazzled; bedazzling; bedazzles

To bedazzle is to charm or impress someone, sometimes to the extent that they feel confused or overwhelmed. A charismatic speaker might bedazzle her audience so much that they all want to buy her new book.

Something can literally bedazzle you, or blind you a little bit: the sun glinting off the ocean around your sailboat might bedazzle you. It's more common, however, to find this verb used in a figurative way, when a person amazes or impresses you. The root of bedazzle, the Middle English dasen, or "daze," possibly stems from the Middle Dutch word of the same spelling, which means "act silly."

Definitions of bedazzle
  1. verb
    cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
    synonyms: daze, dazzle
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    type of:
    blind
    render unable to see
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