daze
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Cadfael had to pluck Elis by the sleeve to bring him out of his daze, and draw him onward out of her path, recalling him to the realisation that he was staring with embarrassing intensity, and might well give her offence if she noticed him.
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- transitive verb To stun, as with a heavy blow or shock; stupefy.
- transitive verb To dazzle, as with strong light.
- noun A stunned or bewildered condition.
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- "I won't-" Vetch began, but the Mouth wasn't listening. — Joust
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Cadfael had to pluck Elis by the sleeve to bring him out of his daze, and draw him onward out of her path, recalling him to the realisation that he was staring with embarrassing intensity, and might well give her offence if she noticed him.
— A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old -
As in a daze, the patriarch hobbled off, calling to others.
— Here There Are Monsters -
I listened to all this in a daze, and then Canning was passing something to Campbell, and he was coming up to me, glowering under his brows, and harrumphing.
— Fiancée - "And we both managed to make it complicated." — Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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- Middle English dasen, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse dasask, to become weary.
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/ (dāz)/
ahd pronounces "daze"
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