Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To stun, as with a heavy blow or shock; stupefy.
- v. To dazzle, as with strong light.
- n. A stunned or bewildered condition.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To stun or stupefy, as with a blow or strong drink; blind, as by excess of light; confuse or bewilder, as by a shock.
- To spoil, as bread or meat when badly baked or roasted.
- To be stunned or stupefied; look confused.
- To be blinded or confused, as by excess of light.
- To wither; become rotten.
- n. The state of being stunned, stupefied, or confused.
- n. In mining, a glittering stone.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being dazed;
- n. mining A glittering stone.
- v. To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
- n. colloq. The state of being dazed.
- n. (Mining) A glittering stone.
WordNet 3.0
- v. to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
- v. overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
- n. confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- n. the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
Etymologies
- Middle English dasen, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse dasask, to become weary. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fifteen minutes in daze looking at tickets, five minutes to get taxi, fifteen minutes to pack and be ready for taxi, five minutes to check out, twenty minute drive, etc.”
“Binbin-daze" is an affectionate name meaning "Mr. Boing Boing" in reference to a young man's penis that is always on the verge of erection.”
“So strange was she, so in daze and amaze and far-seeing were her eyes, that I was reminded of the lepers I had seen healed in Samaria.”
“Back in our hippie days -- I always feel as if maybe I should spell that latter word "daze" -- one of our touchstone books was Be Here Now, by Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert.”
“I've stopped crying all the time about it and walking round in a depressed daze, which is a blessing.”
\"I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by...it's alright cuz I'm Saved by the Bell\"
“What she could still hold whole in her daze were the small hopes.”
“I've been in a weird kind of daze ... the other day I wrote about 4,000 words (some of them transcribed from an earlier draft of RESURRECTION CODE, mind you,) which is still absolutely insane for me.”
“Denver Art Museum and The Anschutz Collection 'Long Jakes, "The Rocky Mountain Man"'(1844) Born in Philadelphia, and related through his mother to distinguished families in North Carolina and New York, Deas (pronounced "daze") was initially raised in privileged surroundings.”
“ So Liz was in a kind of daze while Sarah and Tania argued about whether Tania cried.”
“In 1967, those of us who saw Bonnie and Clyde in the small towns of North Louisiana walked out of the theaters in a kind of daze - moved, shocked, silent, and perhaps secretly exhilarated.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘daze’.
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Confusually
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baffle, farrago, confound, befuddle, daze, disorient, discombobulate, stupefy, perplex, mystify, bewilder, boggle and 134 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Words
Just words!
enjoyed, quiet breath, my jacket torn to..., daze, missing angel juan, had, there are these t..., called, buffalo, sun, word, words and 14 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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ash
ash
abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Dazy & Sandy
Things I call my dogs.
foofer, poo, boo, pooper, miss nose, cuddle bunkins, snuggle bunny, wuzzle wuzzle, daze, sandypants, poopadoo, cutie poo and 8 more...
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D
dew, driftwood, dusty, doxy, droplet, doe, dimday, dwell, damsel, delicate, dapple, darling and 42 more...
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"Z" Words
Scrabble List
zyme, zori, zoos, zoon, zoom, zonk, zone, zoic, zoea, zits, ziti, zing and 76 more...
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