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Dazzle vs Electrify - What's the difference?

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Dazzle is a related term of electrify.


In lang=en terms the difference between dazzle and electrify

is that dazzle is to be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness while electrify is to become electric.

As verbs the difference between dazzle and electrify

is that dazzle is to confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness while electrify is to communicate or supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.

As a noun dazzle

is a light of dazzling brilliancy.

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

    electrify

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To communicate or supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
  • to electrify a jar
  • To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
  • to electrify a limb, or the body
  • To excite suddenly and violently, especially by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill.
  • This patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.
  • * Macaulay
  • If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news.
  • * George Eliot
  • Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.
  • * '>citation
  • To become electric.
  • to adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, railroad) for electric power