dazzledadj.
/ˈdaz(ə)ld/ 1. Overpowered or confounded by too strong light or splendour.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective] > dazzled
blind1483
dazzling1571
dazed1581
dazzled1581
owl-sighted1596
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 499 So forcible is the dazeled blindenes of selfe Love.
a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) vii. 89 [He] cleareth the daseled eyes of that Army.
a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning xvi, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 26 Those dazled notions..Which our fraile Vnderstanding doth retaine.
1811 W. Wordsworth Here Pause in Sonn. to Liberty An accursed thing it is to gaze On prosperous tyrants with a dazzled eye.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. ix. ii. 131 This indistinct and dazzled apprehension.
2. Outshone or dimmed by a stronger light.
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the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > less bright
dazzled1576
undershining1581
dimmed1590
low1811
1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 292 As the bright beames of the Sunne passe the dimme and dazeled light of the Moone.
1833 Ld. Tennyson Fatima iv My spirit..Faints like a dazzled morning moon.
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