Dazzle vs. Gleam — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dazzle and Gleam
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Dazzle
To dim the vision of, especially to blind with intense light.
Gleam
A brief beam or flash of light
Saw gleams of daylight through the cracks.
Dazzle
To amaze, overwhelm, or bewilder with spectacular display
A figure skater who dazzled the audience with virtuosic jumps.
Gleam
A steady but subdued shining; a glow
The gleam of burnished gold.
Dazzle
To become blinded.
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Gleam
A brief or dim indication; a trace
A gleam of intelligence.
Dazzle
To inspire admiration or wonder.
Gleam
To emit a gleam; flash or glow
"Their tile roofs gleamed in the moon's pallid radiance" (Laura Joh Rowland).
Dazzle
The act of dazzling or the state of being dazzled.
Gleam
To be reflected as a gleam
The sun gleamed on the water.
Dazzle
(transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
Gleam
To be manifested or indicated briefly or faintly.
Dazzle
To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
Gleam
(countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
Dazzle
(intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
Gleam
An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.
Dazzle
A light of dazzling brilliancy.
Gleam
A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
Dazzle
(figurative) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
Gleam
A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
Dazzle
(uncommon) A herd of zebra.
Gleam
(obsolete)
Dazzle
(uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.
Gleam
(countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
Dazzle
To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
Those heavenly shapesWill dazzle now the earthly, with their blazeInsufferably bright.
An unreflected light did never yetDazzle the vision feminine.
Gleam
(uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
Dazzle
To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.
Gleam
(transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
Dazzle
To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.
Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design.
Gleam
(intransitive)
Dazzle
To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle.
I dare not trust these eyes;They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.
Gleam
To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
Dazzle
A light of dazzling brilliancy.
Gleam
(figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
Dazzle
Brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily
Gleam
Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.
Dazzle
To cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light;
She was dazzled by the bright headlights
Gleam
To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Dazzle
Amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill;
Her arguments dazzled everyone
The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps
Gleam
To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
Gleam
To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
Gleam
To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights.
Gleam
A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Transient unexpected gleams of joi.
At last a gleamOf dawning light turned thitherward in hasteHis [Satan's] traveled steps.
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.
Gleam
Brightness; splendor.
In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.
Gleam
An appearance of reflected light
Gleam
A flash of light (especially reflected light)
Gleam
Be shiny, as if wet;
His eyes were glistening
Gleam
Shine brightly, like a star or a light
Gleam
Appear briefly;
A terrible thought gleamed in her mind
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