Daze

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Daze \Daze\, n.
     1. The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. [Colloq.]
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     2. (Mining) A glittering stone.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Daze \Daze\ (d[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dazed} (d[=a]zd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Dazing}.] [OE. dasen, prob. from Icel. dasask
     to become weary, a reflexive verb; cf. Sw. dasa to lie idle,
     and OD. daesen to be foolish, insane, daes, dwaes, D. dwaas,
     foolish, insane, AS. dw[=ae]s, dysig, stupid. [root]71. Cf.
     {Dizzy}, {Doze}.]
     To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or
     with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
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           While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.
                                                    --Spenser.
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           Such souls,
           Whose sudden visitations daze the world. --Sir H.
                                                    Taylor.
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           He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an
           odd though a sufficient substitute for interest.
                                                    --Dickens.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  daze
       n 1: the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when
            something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's
            deathleft him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock" [syn:
             {shock}, {stupor}]
       2: confusion characterized by lack of clarity [syn: {fog}, {haze}]
       v 1: to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from
            intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright
            headlights" [syn: {dazzle}, {bedazzle}]
       2: overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news
          stunned her" [syn: {stun}, {bedaze}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  202 Moby Thesaurus words for "daze":
     addle, addle the wits, amaze, amazed, amnesia, astonish,
     astonished, astound, astounded, awe, awestrike, baffle, baffled,
     ball up, bamboozle, bandage, be bright, beacon, beam, beat,
     becloud, bedaze, bedazzle, bedazzled, befuddle, befuddled,
     befuddlement, bemuse, bemused, benight, benumb, bewilder,
     bewildered, bewilderment, blaze, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold,
     boggle, bother, botheration, bowl down, bowl over, buffalo, bug,
     burn, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, chaos, cloud,
     confound, confuse, confused, confusion, darken, daydreaming,
     dazzle, dazzled, deprive of sight, diffuse light, dim,
     discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture,
     discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder,
     disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation,
     disoriented, distract, disturb, disturbance, dizzy, dream state,
     dumbfound, dumbfounder, eclipse, embarrass, embarrassment,
     entangle, excecate, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flame, flare,
     flash, floor, floored, flummox, flurry, fluster, flustered,
     flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fugue, fugue state,
     fulgurate, fuss, get, give light, glance, glare, gleam, glint,
     glow, gouge, haze, hoodwink, hypnotic trance, in a daze,
     in a trance, incandesce, jumble, keep in suspense, lick, luster,
     make blind, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, muddle,
     muddleheadedness, muddlement, mystified, mystify, nonplus,
     nonplussed, obscure, overcome, overpower, overpowered, overwhelm,
     paralyze, perplex, perplexed, perplexity, perturb, perturbation,
     petrify, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, puzzled, radiate,
     raise hell, rattle, reverie, rock, ruffle, send out rays, shine,
     shine brightly, shock, shocked, shoot, shoot out rays, shuffle,
     sleepwalking, snow-blind, somnambulism, spin, stagger, staggered,
     startle, startled, stew, stick, strike blind, strike dead,
     strike dumb, strike with wonder, stump, stun, stunned, stupefied,
     stupefy, stupor, surprise, surprised, sweat, swivet, throw,
     throw into confusion, tizzy, trance, unsettle, unsettlement, upset,
     whirl