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Bezzle vs Dazzle - What's the difference?

bezzle | dazzle |

As verbs the difference between bezzle and dazzle

is that bezzle is (obsolete) to plunder; to lay waste to, in riot while dazzle is to confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.

As a noun dazzle is

a light of dazzling brilliancy.

bezzle

English

Verb

(bezzl)
  • (obsolete) To plunder; to lay waste to, in riot.
  • (obsolete) To drink to excess; to revel.
    • (Webster 1913)

    dazzle

    English

    Verb

    (dazzl)
  • To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
    • Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
  • * Milton
    • Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
  • * Sir H. Taylor
    • An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
  • (figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
    • The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
  • To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .
  • * Dryden
    • I dare not trust these eyes; / They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.

    Derived terms

    * dazzler * dazzlement

    Noun

    (s)
  • A light of dazzling brilliancy.
  • (uncommon) A herd of zebra.
  • * 1958', Laurens Van der Post, ''The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory'' (' 1998 David Coulson edition):
    • We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly
  • * 2009 , Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts , page 176:
    • Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt,
  • * 2010 , Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa , page 22:
    • I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.

    Synonyms

    * herd