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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dazzle.

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  • adjective stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering
  • adjective having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light

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Examples

  • The label dazzled with a collection that, though starker than in seasons past, felt spot on.

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  • It blazed like a star above Simon’s eyes as he brushed his fingers across his forehead, his expression dazzled and confused.

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  • It blazed like a star above Simon’s eyes as he brushed his fingers across his forehead, his expression dazzled and confused.

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  • VANCOUVER South Korea's Kim Yu-Na dazzled from the big air of her opening jumps to the blurring spin of her finish to win a historic gold medal with more record-smashing scores.

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  • There one got dazzled from the abundance of rarities and all possible art and souvenir products relating to Jack London.

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  • Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the heart of the unruly Somers family, into a world of privilege, adventure, and sexual daring.

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  • This literary Trilby would often appear seated on piles of books, and with hooked fingers would point out with a grin of malice two yellow volumes whose title dazzled the eyes.

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  • This literary Trilby would often appear seated on piles of books, and with hooked fingers would point out with a grin of malice two yellow volumes whose title dazzled the eyes.

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  • This literary Trilby would often appear seated on piles of books, and with hooked fingers would point out with a grin of malice two yellow volumes whose title dazzled the eyes.

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  • As the New Yorker piece showed, one portion of the GOP elite selected her because they were "dazzled"; a larger subset of the GOP elite despise her and the empty populism she represents.

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