dazzle vs hebetate

dazzle

verb
  • To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. 

  • To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. 

  • To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness. 

noun
  • A herd of zebra. 

  • Dazzle camouflage. 

  • Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly. 

  • A light of dazzling brilliancy. 

hebetate

verb
  • To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt. 

adj
  • obtuse; dull 

  • Having a dull or blunt and soft point 

How often have the words dazzle and hebetate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )