bedazzle

Questions about bedazzle

What does bedazzle mean?

bedazzle means "to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light".

How many syllables are in bedazzle?

bedazzle has 3 syllables and divides as be-daz-zle under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bedazzle?

Close synonyms include dazzle, daze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bedazzle a common word?

bedazzle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.