单词 | daze |
释义 | daze I. 1. < he swung at him, dazed him, and drove him along the bar — Morley Callaghan > 2. < the whiteness of the walls dazes me > Synonyms: < too stunned and dazed by the suddenness with which events had happened during the last twenty-four hours to be able to realize his position — Samuel Butler †1902 > < a grief-dazed mother > < dazed by the lantern glare — Rudyard Kipling > stun usually suggests the deprivation of powers of thought, or a usually momentary loss of consciousness, from a heavy blow or something conceived of as resembling a heavy blow < I was knocked headlong across the floor against the oven handle and stunned. I was insensible for a long time — H.G.Wells > < the swing doors burst open with a crash. There was an instant's stunned silence — Nevil Shute > < a world stunned and only just beginning to awaken from the stupefying effect of war — Aneurin Bevan > < stunned by a sudden declaration of love > bemuse implies an addling or muddling of the mind, typically through intoxication < an alcohol-bemused tramp > < the noise of London bemused her more than the noise of the sea — Ngaio Marsh > < so bemused by theories of meaning that we have lost sight of what men do in fact mean — Iredell Jenkins > stupefy heightens the implication of stupor or stupidity, implying not so much a blow or shock as some cause like an injury, intoxication, or long-continued grief or anxiety < the ship … reeled, trembled, and stopped her way, as if [the heavy sea] had stupefied her — Frederick Marryat > < half stupefied with sleep and fatigue — Elizabeth Goudge > < a dull misery stupefied her thoughts — Ellen Glasgow > torpify is close to stupefy but stresses torpor of body resulting in torpor of mind and usually implying a physical cause < a drug that torpifies the rational faculties > benumb applies usually to the effect of cold in deadening the sensations or immobilizing muscle action; in extension, it strongly suggests this effect < it is so cold, so dark, my senses are so benumbed — Charles Dickens > < her senses remained benumbed by toil — Ellen Glasgow > < Charlotte's cold resolution benumbed her courage, and she could find no immediate reply — Edith Wharton > paralyze is often used to imply an inability to act or function that results from some dire event < why does danger paralyze the will and intelligence of some men — Bernard De Voto > < the grim panic which paralyzed business and agriculture in the West — R.A.Billington > petrify emphasizes an immediate strong, figuratively paralyzing effect, usually of fear, suggesting complete inability to move, think, or speak, and lending itself easily to conversational hyperbole < the petrifying effect of fear — E.A.Armstrong > < a tiger, serenely gazing at me barely twenty yards away. I was petrified at first — Suresh Vaidya > < I was petrified to think my wallet had been lost > II. 1. < went about in a daze > 2. |
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