dazzle

verb

1. (transitive)To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.

   “Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.”

   “Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.”

   “Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.”

   “An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.”

2. (figuratively, transitive)To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

   “The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.”

3. (intransitive)To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

   “For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.”

   “[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A light of dazzling brilliancy.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
3. (collective, countable, uncommon, uncountable)A herd of zebra.

   “We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]”

   “Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]”

   “I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.”

   “A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.”

4. (uncountable)Dazzle camouflage.