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say it: DAZ-uhl
dazzle is a verb and noun meaning "to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light". It is pronounced /ˈdæzəl/ — DAZ-uhl. It carries 3 recorded senses.
amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill
“Her arguments dazzled everyone”
“The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps”
brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dazzle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.