daze

From Middle English, back-formation from dazed.

Compare dasask (“to become weary”), with reflexive suffix -sk, Swedish dasa (“lie idly”), and Icelandic dasask (“to make weary with cold”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *dusāną, to slumber.

Alternatively from Middle Dutch dasen (“act silly”).

• IPA^(key): /deɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophone: days

daze (plural dazes)

1. The state of being dazed

   Synonym: spin

   He was in a daze.

2. (mining) A glittering stone.

• blue daze

daze (third-person singular simple present dazes, present participle dazing, simple past and past participle dazed)

1. (transitive) To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.

   Coordinate terms: dazzle, blind

   Near-synonyms: confuse, benumb

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “daze”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• adze, deza