razzle

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verb

To dazzle or disorient

UncommonScrabble 24

Meanings

verbrazzle (third-person singular simple present razzles, present participle razzling, simple past and past participle razzled)

present singular third person razzles · participle present razzling · participle past razzled · past razzled

  1. To dazzle or disorient

    "We got razzled," said Wizards center Brendan Haywood, inventing a word on a night when he did little else. "It's the playoffs. You've got to play."

    2005 April 28, Jay Mariotti, “While Wizards talk, upstart Bulls just shut up and play”, in Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016
    1 more example

    My sister had the good sense to keep mum about our babysitter's stories, but I was so razzled by hopes of meeting with these aliens and learning their world-saving secrets that I blabbed about the possibility to my mother, who quickly wormed the entire chronicle from me.

    1993, Scott Russell Sanders, The Paradise of Bombs, →ISBN, page 14

Synonyms & antonyms

nounany exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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