Bewilder vs Dizzy - What's the difference?
bewilder | dizzy |
(label) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
(label) To disorientate someone.
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Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
* Drayton
Producing giddiness.
* Macaulay
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
* Milton
To make dizzy, to bewilder.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:
* Sir Walter Scott
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As verbs the difference between bewilder and dizzy
is that bewilder is (label) to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things while dizzy is to make dizzy, to bewilder.As a adjective dizzy is
having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.bewilder
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bewilderedly * bewilderedness * bewilderer * bewildermentExternal links
* *dizzy
English
Alternative forms
* dizzie (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- I stood up too fast and felt dizzy .
- Alas! his brain was dizzy .
- We climbed to a dizzy height.
- To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
- ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
- My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
- the dizzy multitude
Derived terms
* dizzily * dizziness * dizzyinglyVerb
- Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature.
- If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova, passage=So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.}}