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Daze   /deɪz/   Listen
noun
Daze  n.  
1.
The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. (Colloq.)
2.
(Mining) A glittering stone.


verb
Daze  v. t.  (past & past part. dazed; pres. part. dazing)  To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. "While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen." "Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world." "He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest."





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"Daze" Quotes from Famous Books



... from a dash of cold water in the face, the rough tonic effectually bringing him out of his daze of ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... courage to go on playing. Nick Bottom wasn't in this first scene, anyway, and this would have to be gone through with somehow. By this time she was in a state of daze that only thought from moment to moment. The end of the evening seemed now to her as far off as the end of a hale old age seems at the beginning of a lifetime. Somehow she must walk through it; but she could only see ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... at the headgate and then go dancing over the rapids, even as Carlia's sticks had done. For a moment the young man's thoughts were with his books, and it seemed that he stood there in the canal for quite a while in a sort of daze, with the water rushing by his legs. Then mechanically he carried the girl to the bank and would have set her down again with her companions, but she clung to him so closely and with such terror in her eyes that he lifted her into his arms ...
— Dorian • Nephi Anderson
... what she said, and he saw the bank notes—but he saw and heard as in a daze. Gertrude placed the money in his hand, but his fingers would not close over it, and it fell to the ground. Then Gertrude picked it up and stuffed it into his pocket. Ingmar stood there, reeling like a drunken man. Suddenly he raised his arm, clenched his fist tight, and ...
— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof
... motionless presence beneath him, than able to distinguish it by power of vision, he endured interminable minutes of trembling horror, in a witless daze, before he thought of his match-box. Immediately he found it and struck a light. As the wood caught and the bright small flame leaped in the pent air, he leaned forward, over the body, breathlessly dreading what ...
— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance


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