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dazing

verb

present participle of daze

as in stunning

to make senseless or dizzy by a blow the fall dazed him for a moment, causing him to become disoriented

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as in blinding

to overpower with light a skier dazed by the glare from the snow

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Recent Examples of dazing Fairview came out throwing haymakers, dazing the Bruins in the early going. — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 23 Nov. 2025

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Footage of the fight shared online showed Williams punching Colón in the back of the head in the seventh round, apparently stunning him.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Margaret deploys this power to find Daniel and to free him from Noah and the WARDEX minions—essentially, by stunning them emotionally.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2026

Definition of stunning

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This land of wide open spaces, ancient churches and castles, and vast sunflower fields, all baking under the blinding August Sun, seemed like the perfect location to enter the path of totality.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026
Then there’s a seismic rumble and a flash of blinding light in the middle of the night.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of blinding

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May is going strong with stellar entertainment rocking the hottest clubs on the beach.

— miami staff, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
There are times when Linkin Park fills more spaces than any other singer or group on the rock tallies, thanks to a catalog that includes some of the biggest hard-rocking tracks of the past several decades.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of rocking

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