To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.
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Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.1834, Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde, volume 1, page 45:
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Figuratively To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
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To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries:
[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy:
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 […]1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition)
Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]2009, Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts, page 176:
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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.2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22:
A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC: