daze
Other forms: dazed; dazing; dazes
A daze is a type of confusion, when you have a lack of clarity. When you first wake up, you might be in a bit of a daze, shuffling about the house before your brain really starts working.
Daze can also mean the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens to you accidentally: "After getting hit in the head by a football, you were in such a daze you couldn't remember where you were." As a verb, daze means to stun. You will definitely daze your father when you tell him that you eloped.
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confusion characterized by lack of claritytype of:confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion, muddinessa mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
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the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally“his mother's death left him in a daze”type of:stupefactiona feeling of stupefied astonishment
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overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
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to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
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