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bedazzled

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verb

past tense of bedazzle
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as in blinded
to overpower with light the theater's enormous chandelier bedazzled me as a child

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedazzled
Verb
  • Beautiful Art Deco buildings, characterized by their streamlined elegance and bold geometry, have enchanted cities worldwide for nearly a century.
    Maya Chawla, Architectural Digest, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The Royal Shakespeare Company enchanted on their Chicago return.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • What fascinated me about the book is how everybody is part of this drive that this woman had.
    Adam Moss, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • As a young child, Johnson was fascinated by books.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • However, most were stunned at Dawn's story.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • For the coveted shoot, the Olympic athlete stunned in a variety of looks.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Hundreds stood captivated before the stage, including college students Yaox Hern and Ken Ong from Malaysia.
    Autumn Alvarez, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Sammy Sosa approaches the spotlight again Steele was only a toddler during the home run chase of 1998 when Sosa and Mark McGwire pursued the single-season record and captivated fans across the country.
    Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • As with several recent exhibits drawn from Wadsworth collections, the individual items have their own innate power, but that wondrous artistic aura is magnified a thousandfold by the smart curatorial and presentational style that brings these wildly varied works together.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • And even though the creative inspiration for these sequences seems to come, at least in part, from Michel Gondry’s wondrous direction in that film, Mark’s memories aren’t being erased like Joel Barish’s; quite the opposite, as his Innie life is being added to his Outie’s.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Bedazzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedazzled. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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