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Dazed   /deɪzd/   Listen
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."


adjective
dazed  adj.  
1.
Stupefied; conscious but unable to think clearly; usually caused by a blow or other shock.
Synonyms: foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous.
2.
Stunned from or as if from repeated blows.
Synonyms: punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy.





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"Dazed" Quotes from Famous Books



... threw him backward on to the floor of the carriage. As he fell the man drew out his revolver, but Vincent grasped his arm and with a sharp twist wrenched the revolver from his grasp, and leaping up, threw it out of the open window. The ruffian rose to his feat, for a moment half dazed by the violence with which he had fallen, and poured out a string of imprecations upon Vincent. The latter stood calmly awaiting a fresh attack. For a moment the ruffian hesitated, and then, goaded to fury by the taunting laughter of the lookers-on, was ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty
... with my owne hand. At it till eleven at night; and it is strange to see how clear my head was, being eased of all the matter of all these letters; whereas one would think that I should have been dazed. I never did observe so much of myself in my life. In the evening there comes to me Captain Cocke, and walked a good while in the garden. He says he hath computed that the rents of houses lost by this fire in the ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... Dazed by an encounter for which he seemed even less prepared than myself, he stood with his heart in his face, if I may so speak, and only gradually came to himself as the sense of my proximity forced itself in ...
— The Millionaire Baby • Anna Katharine Green
... engine drowned conversation. An instant later the two carloads of banditti were passing down around curve after curve of the sandy road. Mary Warren, still dazed, and dull where she lay, heard them go by. Yonder then, lay the trail—but could she know which way? If she turned her head she would lose the direction. She kept her eyes fixed upon the last point of the compass from ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected. "Uh oh. I should have gotten a prompt ten seconds ago. The program's in deep space somewhere." Compare {buzz}, {catatonic}, {hyperspace}. 2. The metaphorical location of a human so dazed and/or confused or caught up in some esoteric form of {bogosity} that he or she no longer responds coherently to normal communication. ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


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