Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: dazzingly – deadly
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dazzingly, adv. [see dazzlingly, adv.]
dazzle (-d, -s), v. [ME, diminutive of dase, daze.] (webplay: blind, brightness, light, sun, surprise).
- Shine; glow; burn brightly; radiate light; [fig.] amaze; amuse; enlighten; edify; catch the attention.
- Enlighten; be revealed; [fig.] inform; acquaint; notify.
dazzled, verbal adj. [see dazzle, v.] (webplay: dared).
- Awe-struck; reverent; left in a state of wonder; speechless because of amazement.
- Sunlit; shining; glowing; reflecting light; [fig.] bashful; blushing; shy; modest; dazed with surprise; overcome with gratitude.
dazzling, verbal adj. [see dazzle, v.] (webplay: light, splendor).
Golden; bright yellow; sparkling; glittering; glimmering; [fig.] blinding because of brightness.
dazzlingly (dazzingly), adv. [see dazzle, v.]
With a flash; in a twinkle; with a sudden flare of light; [fig.] surprisingly; delightfully; overwhelmingly; shockingly; in a manner that thrills; numbing the senses; causing temporary blindness.
dead, adv. [see dead, verbal adj.] (webplay: eye, motion, soul).
Limp; lifeless; inanimate; [fig.] numb; dazed; senseless; into shock; (see 1 Peter 4:6).
dead, n. [see dead, verbal adj.] (webplay: away, being, breast, caught, danger, depart, divine, drops, eternal, eye, faith, fire, floor, frost, gates, given, God, grace, hands, head, heart, hour, hunger, land, life, livest, lose, love, men, motion, motionless, name, nature, night, nothing, peaceful, perish, pleasures, quiet, restored, rising, secret, seeds, senses, separation, sleep, stone, suffer, tasteless, time, tree, truth, vacant, walls, warmth, weight, wind, words).
- People who have died; those who have gone on from this life to the next; (see 1 Corinthians 15:42).
- Departed souls; deceased ones; people who have passed away.
dead, verbal adj. [OE déad; cognate to Old High Saxon touwen, die.] (webplay: action, ball, blood, caught, cold, common, daily, depart, divine, drops, dull, Egypt, enemy, faint, fame, force, frost, gloomy, God, Greek, grief, hands, head, heart, inactive, kill, Latin, life, livest, lose, love, manner, men, murder, name, nature, passed, people, poor, sight, sleep, soul, sound, spoken, stone, surface, tasteless, time, truth, warmth, water, weight, wind, words, world).
- Lifeless; inanimate; no longer alive; without life; (see Exodus 21:35).
- Ended; completed; finished; extinct; over; [fig.] asleep; numbed; (see Galatians 2:19).
- Fleeting; deteriorating; disintegrating; dissolving; dissipated.
deaden, v. [see dead, adj.] (webplay: heart, pleasures, sleep, suffer).
Dull; numb; diminish; tranquilize; ease.
deadly, adj. [see dead, adj.] (webplay: away, head, hunger, kill, life, livest, master, night, passed, pleasures, power, second death, spoken, time, wine).
Lethal; destructive; [fig.] fierce; (see 1 Samuel 5:11).