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DAZED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
Example:
was stupid from fatigue
Synonyms:
dazed; stunned; stupefied; stupid
Classified under:
Similar:
confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
Synonyms:
dazed; foggy; groggy; logy; stuporous
Classified under:
Similar:
lethargic; unenergetic (deficient in alertness or activity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb daze
Context examples:
There was little fight left in the peasants, however, still dazed by the explosion, amazed at their own losses and disheartened by the arrival of the disciplined archers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And as this idea of fulfilling Wolf Larsen’s order persisted in my dazed consciousness, I seemed to see him standing at the wheel in the midst of the wild welter, pitting his will against the will of the storm and defying it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
No; he is clean dazed.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Very stiff and sore of foot I was in the morning, and quite dazed by the beating of drums and marching of troops, which seemed to hem me in on every side when I went down towards the long narrow street.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It cowed me more than the pain, and I began to obey him at once, walking straight in at the door and towards the parlour, where our sick old buccaneer was sitting, dazed with rum.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning train.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man was so dazed that he could not be made to understand that we were anything but doctors who had been sent to his assistance.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The others were dazed at first, but as remembrance came back to them they cried and sobbed in a hysterical manner.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
His head and arms and shoulders ached, the small of his back ached,—he ached all over, and his brain was heavy and dazed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
