Not any physical impact—no, something which was dazing but still immaterial.
Something like vertigo, a dazing, a loss of all the faculties.
She picked it up, and applied herself for a while to its dazing infinitives.
Just after her death he was as a man stricken by some dazing mental affection.
His speech was interrupted by a dazing, deafening tumult of sound.
The pommel of the Chevalier's rapier hit him in the forehead, cutting and dazing him.
Both literally sacrificed their lives for dreams, the confused imagery of which was suggested by the dazing medley of the Kabbala.
Certainly it was not the work of a man daily dazing his faculties with drink; no more was that exquisite lyric To Mary in Heaven.
But something in the air of the chamber struck to the heart—something different, subtle, unfamiliar, dazing.
Hardly could he make a move before one of the boys struck him on the head with a club, dazing him.
"a dazed condition," 1825, from daze (v.).
early 14c., dasen, perhaps from Old Norse *dasa (cf. dasask "to become weary," with reflexive suffix -sk). Or perhaps from Middle Dutch dasen "act silly." Perhaps originally "to make weary with cold," which is the sense of Icelandic dasask (from the Old Norse word). Related: Dazed.
