different between astonish vs dazzle
astonish
English
Etymology
From an alteration (due to words ending in -ish: abolish, banish, cherish, establish, furnish, etc.) of earlier astony, astone, aston, astun (“to astonish, confound, stun”), from Middle English astonien, astunien, astonen, astunen, astounen (“to astound, stun, astonish”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Old English *?stunian, from ?- (perfective prefix) + stunian (“to make a loud sound, crash, resound, roar, bang, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy”), from Proto-Germanic *stun?n? (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)ton- (“to thunder, roar, groan”), equivalent to a- +? stun. Compare German erstaunen (“to astonish, amaze”). Another possible source, or else influence, is Old French estoner, estuner, estonuer, estonner (“to stun”), either from an assumed Vulgar Latin *extonare (“to strike with thunder, daze, stupefy, stun”) from Late Latin *extono (ex +? tono), or from Old Frankish *stunen (“to stun”), related to Middle High German stunen (“to knock, strike, stun”) and then, if not the source, still a cognate of the word astonish.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??st?n??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??st?n??/
- Hyphenation: as?ton?ish
Verb
astonish (third-person singular simple present astonishes, present participle astonishing, simple past and past participle astonished)
- To surprise greatly.
- 1813, Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice:
- "I have no right to give my opinion," said Wickham, "as to his being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is impossible for me to be impartial. But I believe your opinion of him would in general astonish — and perhaps you would not express it quite so strongly anywhere else. Here you are in your own family."
- 1813, Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice:
Synonyms
- (to surprise): astound, flabbergast, surprise
Derived terms
Translations
astonish From the web:
- what astonished means
- what astonishes rita the most
- what astonishing
- what astonished rip
- what astonished ranga very much
- what does astonished mean
dazzle
English
Etymology
daze +? -le, a frequentative form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dæz?l/
- Rhymes: -æz?l
Verb
dazzle (third-person singular simple present dazzles, present participle dazzling, simple past and past participle dazzled)
- (transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
- (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
- Synonyms: impress, overpower
- (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
Derived terms
- bedazzle
- dazzler
- dazzlement
- endazzle
- endazzlement
Translations
Noun
dazzle (countable and uncountable, plural dazzles)
- A light of dazzling brilliancy.
- (figuratively) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
- (uncommon) A herd of zebra.
- 1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition):
- 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):
- (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.
Synonyms
- (group of zebras): herd, zeal.
Translations
dazzle From the web:
- what dazzle means
- what dazzles
- what dazzle every eye
- what's dazzle dry
- dazzle meaning in english
- what dazzle me
- dazzler meaning
- dazzle me meaning
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