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Daze vs Aghast - What's the difference?

daze | aghast |

As a noun daze

is the state of being dazed;.

As a verb daze

is to stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

As an adjective aghast is

terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

daze

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being dazed;
    • He was in a daze.
  • (mining) A glittering stone.

    • Verb

    (daz)
  • To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

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    aghast

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
  • * 1902 , The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
    • And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
  • * 1985 , Les Misérables , the song "Red and Black"
    • I am agog! I am aghast ! Is Marius in love at last?
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
    • Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.

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