(v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
(n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
(n.) A glittering stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(2) "We're not really here," read John Reid's T-shirt, quoting a City song from the difficult years, as he stood in a daze in Albert Square listening to Oasis blast out from the speakers.
(3) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
(4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
(5) "Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis," Murray said afterwards, still in something of a daze a good half hour after the final point.
(6) He was also forced to scrap plans to launch a Russian Dazed & Confused, which was due to appear in March or September this year.
(7) But the most worrying thing about the shadow cabinet is that few have the stature to challenge the leader if he does make mistakes, as all leaders do; some are so green they’ll merely be thrilled to have a job, others too dazed by defeat.
(8) Gagarin Way, Gregory Burke's first play in 2001, was phenomenal; I reeled from the Traverse theatre in a daze of admiration.
(9) Still bloodied and dazed, Karen must hand over her baby and be led outside.
(10) His elbow to the head of Joe Cole left the Chelsea midfielder so bloodied and dazed that he had to be replaced by Jermaine Jenas.
(11) The magazine's dazed New York lawyers then heard Eady instruct the jurors that they were not there "to judge Mr Polanski's personal lifestyle" because the libel court was not "a court of morals".
(12) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
(13) I saw this when I spoke with men and women at the very start of their journey – dazed and battered from the drive across the desert border with Niger but filled with a naive optimism.
(14) The city centre ground to a halt as rescuers pulled bloodied corpses from the rubble and dazed, dust-covered survivors stumbled away.
(15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(16) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
(17) He sat up, looked round, said 'I just want to go home', dazed shocked."
(18) Dazed from the fumes, I walked smack into an older gentleman only to realise it was, in fact, Bill Murray.
(19) Frank Lampard had spoken of the game passing in "all a bit of a daze", with team-mates left to pick over the drama to recreate the timeline: conceding to Sergio Busquets; losing John Terry to a red card; falling further behind to Andrés Iniesta; Ramires's glorious riposte; Lionel Messi's penalty miss; the quivering of the woodwork as they heaved to contain the holders; the desperate rearguard action before Fernando Torres, the £50m goalscorer with so few goals to his name, sprinted alone into Barça territory and equalised in stoppage time.
(20) A week later, he was found wandering in a daze some distance behind the front line.
Laze
Definition:
(v. i.) To be lazy or idle.
(v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 50 best beaches in the world Beaches are good for many things, and not just lazing on, as it happens.
(2) Dogs laze in the stifling afternoon heat of the Shire Valley.
(3) What feels new and fresh here isn't a threesome or a Grindr hook-up, but a scene where Agustín and his boyfriend are lazing on the sofa watching television.
(4) You can laze around beside a rooftop pool or dine at the outdoor (buffet) restaurant overlooking the beach.
(5) But lazing on the huge patio overlooking the ocean, well away from other buildings, will make you forget those inconveniences.
(6) Lazing in bed sets you back in this interminable rat race.
(7) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
(8) Next day we lazed on the city's sandy Catalans beach, just a few minutes from our hotel, the oh-so-Marseillaise Richelieu.
(9) Whitetip reef sharks laze ahead of their night-time feed, while mustard-yellow trumpetfish wriggle along past shoals of glittering bigeye jacks.
(10) "We are here for negotiations with Akhmetov," said Anton Kosenko, a self-styled MP of the Donetsk People's Republic, who was wearing a white suit and appeared to be in charge of a dozen fighters with automatic weapons and knives who were lazing on the grass outside the gates to Akhmetov's lavish residence.
(11) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
(12) Laze in the hammocks, splash about in your private pool or help yourself to fruit and veg from the garden and eggs from the free-range chickens.
(13) But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
(14) While he was there, the editor of the university magazine, Clive James, published an early poem, but mostly Murray "lazed around and read the library.