days vs daze
Definitions
noun
- the time during which someone's life continues
Examples
It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
The old ceiling and bar brought back many memories of happy carefree days of yore to those present.
We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.
Definitions
verb
- overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
- to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
noun
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
Examples
One of my dazed wits tried to tell me the odds against this actually happening.
I'm just still in a daze, wandering round the town centre at lunch, like some half-cut junkie, drunk on death.
PHILADELPHIA mdash; When Davida Johnson walked into Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic to get an abortion in 2001, she saw what she described as dazed women...
