Daze \Daze\ (d[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dazed} (d[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dazing}.] [OE. dasen, prob. from Icel. dasask to become weary, a reflexive verb; cf. Sw. dasa to lie idle, and OD. daesen to be foolish, insane, daes, dwaes, D. dwaas, foolish, insane, AS. dw[=ae]s, dysig, stupid. [root]71. Cf. {Dizzy}, {Doze}.] To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. --Spenser.
Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. --Sir H. Taylor.
He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. --Dickens.
Daze \Daze\, n. 1. The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. [Colloq.]
2. (Mining) A glittering stone.
In "Arthur 2," the title character spends all but the final reel of the movie stumbling around in a drunken daze.
"Most of them really do exhibit a more positive attitude than you might imagine," he said. "A portion of them do act like they are in a bit of a daze." Spouses show the most emotion, he said. "Some are scared.
On the way home, "I just felt in a daze, I was shocked," he says.
The people seemed to be walking out quite orderly." Other witnesses said they saw two waiters stumble outside in a daze, their aprons blackened.
A few hours after the crash, "one woman just wandered through the hall in a daze, calling out the name of a missing relative," he said.