bedazzle

1
as in to fascinate
to hold the attention of as if by a spell don't let their promises of immense riches bedazzle you

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as in to blind
to overpower with light the theater's enormous chandelier bedazzled me as a child

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Recent Examples of bedazzle Think about it: The holiday season involves packing bags, bedazzling your tree with baubles, and kneading dough for sugar cookies. Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024 Think earrings, bracelets, and other necklace styles—all bedazzled in jewels, of course. Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 9 Dec. 2024 She was seen arriving at Arrowhead Stadium — with Travis' girlfriend Taylor Swift at her side — wearing a pair of black leather pants and a black jacket bedazzled with the Chiefs logo. Erin Clack, People.com, 1 Dec. 2024 Prior to her monumental performance, Dasha enjoyed getting her cowboy boots shined at the shoe-shining station and taking pictures in the mirror of the glam station with her custom bedazzled PATRÓN Silver Tequila bottle. Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bedazzle 
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  • Tissot was particularly fascinated by the mores and materialism of high society.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Drummer Wilson was reportedly fascinated by Manson and his followers as the two struck up a friendship in 1968.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • Somehow the site’s breathtaking antiquity had, all this time, succeeded in blinding me to its host country’s youth, its essential fragility.
    Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • However, when left unchecked, ambition can morph into a toxic force that blinds individuals to ethical considerations.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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  • This enchanting one-mile illuminated trail takes you on a nighttime journey through the forest.
    Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The masque, performed by gentle spirits, enchants the betrothed.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • Test yourself on Hollywood highlights, dazzling debuts and federal festivities inthis week's American Culture Quiz.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • During the Wednesday, January 8 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, River and Remy dazzled the crowd during their first interview — and looked just like their mom while doing it.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • They're hypnotized, just like people on their phones.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • As part of the current surrealist wave, Dan Da Dan can often be hypnotizing to watch, and that’s intentional.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
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  • Director Mohammad Rasoulof tracks social and moral collapse with the kind of unnerving calm and visual precision that made the Iranian New Wave so striking when Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees and Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence first stunned the film world in the 1990s.
    Armond White, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Legal Challenges Image Legal scholars and immigration advocates said on Tuesday that they were stunned by the breadth of the order.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025

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“Bedazzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedazzle. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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