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dazzling

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Étymologie

Dérivé de dazzle, avec le suffixe -ing.

Adjectif

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dazzling \`ˈdæz.lɪŋ\

  1. Éblouissant (extrêmement lumineux).
    • [H]is ſupercilious glances grevv humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […] — (Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, volume II, R[ichard] Bi[sho]p pour Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, Londres, 1638 (OCLC 1118558005), page 206)
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    • There is something in intense suffering that seeks concealment, something that is fain to belie itself. In Cooper's novel of the "Bravo," Jacques conceals himself and his boat, by lying where the moonlight fell dazzling on the water. We do the same with any great despair, we shroud it in a glittering atmosphere of smiles and jests; but the smiles are sneers, and the jests are sarcasms. — (Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ether Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. : Success, volume II, Henry Colburn (en), Londres, 1837 (OCLC 21345056), page 80)
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    • The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle. — (James Joyce, Ulysses, Shakespeare and Company, Paris, février 1922 (OCLC 560090630))
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    • Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel. — (« Top Lik Drivers: XXX—Driver H. », dans Railway Magazine)
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  2. (Sens figuré) Brillant (qui est remarquable).
  3. Fulgurant.

Dérivés

  • dazzlingly
  • dazzlingness
  • nondazzling
  • undazzling

Vocabulaire apparenté par le sens

Forme de verbe

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dazzling \ˈdæz.lɪŋ\

  1. Participe présent de dazzle.

Nom commun

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dazzling \ˈdæz.lɪŋ\

  1. Éblouissement (action d’éblouir).
    • Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal. — (Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts, 1837)
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Synonymes

  • dazzlement

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