adazzle

comparative more adazzle · superlative most adazzle

1. Illuminated so as to dazzle.

   By the time they entered Washington, it was dark and the lights of the city were all adazzle.

   2013, Brenda George, Song of the Shenandoah, page 147

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   1832, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. LX, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 32, No. 190, February 1832, p. 281, […] let [a poet] speak of a man-of-war in a style that shows he knows a frigate from a three-decker, a cutter from a schooner […] , and Neptune shall be to him Apollo, the Nereids the Muses, and every line shall be a line of light—all a-dazzle with appropriate words, surcharged with the imagery of the great deep.

   The dust rose up in thick clouds, thickened yet more by the sunlight held in them; for the dead air of the hollow was a-dazzle.

   1927, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 5, in Revolt in the Desert,, London: Jonathan Cape, page 76

   It was an æsthetic education to live within those walls, to wander from room to room, from the Soanesque library to the Chinese drawing-room, adazzle with gilt pagodas and nodding mandarins […]

   1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London: Chapman & Hall, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 72

   Synonyms: dazzling