daze

See also: dążę

English

Etymology

From Middle English, back-formation from dazed.

Compare dasask (“to become weary”), with reflexive suffix -sk, Swedish dasa (“lie idly”), and Icelandic dasask (“to make weary with cold”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *dusāną, to slumber.

Alternatively from Middle Dutch dasen (“act silly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophone: days

Noun

daze (plural dazes)

1. The state of being dazed

   Synonym: spin

   He was in a daze.

2. (mining) A glittering stone.

Derived terms

• blue daze

Translations

the state of being dazed

• Bulgarian: шемет (bg) m (šemet), замаяност (bg) f (zamajanost)
• Finnish: pökerrys, hämmennys (fi)
• French: stupéfaction (fr)
• German: Benommenheit (de) f
• Hindi: विस्मय (hi) m (vismay), आश्चर्य (hi) m (āścarya)
• Hungarian: kábulat (hu)
• Italian: trasognamento m
• Portuguese: aturdimento (pt) m, atordoamento (pt) m
• Romanian: uluire (ro) f, stupefacție (ro) f, stupoare (ro) f
• Russian: ошеломле́ние (ru) n (ošelomlénije), изумле́ние (ru) n (izumlénije), оцепене́ние (ru) n (ocepenénije)
• Spanish: aturdimiento (es) m

a glittering stone

• Russian: слюда́ (ru) f (sljudá)

Verb

daze (third-person singular simple present dazes, present participle dazing, simple past and past participle dazed)

1. (transitive) To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.

   Coordinate terms: dazzle, blind

   Near-synonyms: confuse, benumb

Derived terms

• adaze
• bedaze
• dazen
• dazingly
• dazy
• dazzle

Translations

to stun or stupefy

• Bulgarian: замайвам (bg) (zamajvam), зашеметявам (bg) (zašemetjavam)
• Catalan: atordir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使茫然 (zh) (shǐ mángrán), 使發昏 / 使发昏 (zh) (shǐ fāhūn)

• Danish: bedøve
• Dutch: versuffen (nl)
• Finnish: pökerryttää, huumata (fi)
• French: étourdir (fr), abasourdir (fr)
• German: betäuben (de)
• Hindi: अचरज (hi) m (acraj)
• Hungarian: kábít (hu)
• Ido: konfuzeskar (io)
• Italian: stordire (it)
• Japanese: 間誤付かせる (まごつかせる, migotsukaseru)
• Maori: whakahinamoe
• Norwegian: bedøve (no)
• Polish: oszałamiać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: ofuscar (pt), aturdir (pt), atordoar (pt)
• Romanian: ului (ro), stupefia (ro), zăpăci (ro)
• Russian: ошеломля́ть (ru) impf (ošelomljátʹ), ошеломи́ть (ru) pf (ošelomítʹ), изумля́ть (ru) impf (izumljátʹ), изуми́ть (ru) pf (izumítʹ)
• Spanish: aturdir (es), encandilar (es)
• Swedish: bedöva (sv)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “daze”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• adze, deza