different between dazzling vs blinding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæz.l?.??/, /?dæz.l??/
• Hyphenation: dazz?ling

Verb

dazzling

1. present participle of dazzle

Adjective

dazzling (comparative more dazzling, superlative most dazzling)

1. Shining intensely.
   • , Episode 12, The Cyclops

     The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.

2. Splendid; brilliant
3. Superlative; astounding

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Noun

dazzling (plural dazzlings)

1. The action of the verb to dazzle; dazzlement
   • 1837, Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts

     Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?nd??/

Verb

blinding

1. present participle of blind

Adjective

blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)

1. Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
2. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

3. (Britain, slang) Brilliant; marvellous.

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Adverb

blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)

1. (nonstandard) To an extreme degree; blindingly.

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Noun

blinding (plural blindings)

1. The act of causing blindness.
2. A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
3. A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.

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