endazzle en · VERB
Etymology
From en- + dazzle.
Meanings
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(archaic, transitive) To dazzle.
Patches of bright blue sky gladdened the gaze, and the sun again shone forth with endazzling lustre.
1828, Henry Edmund Carrington, The Plymouth and Devonport Guide, page 267:From all the earth thy pilgrims came / And to thy glory bow, / The diadem of human hopes / Endazzling thy fair brow!
1917, John F. Howard, “Columbia”, in The Tripod, volume 13, number 46, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2023, page 4:I am not endazzled by a blinding love that shuts out all the sure necessities of life.
1859, John Brougham, Art and Artifice; or, Woman's Love, page 11:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| endazzling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| endazzled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| endazzled | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| endazzles | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |