verb/e.blu.iʁ/
to dazzle
“Alors, toute une grande clarté monta, éblouit Pierre. Il était la raison, il protestait contre la glorification de l'absurde et la déchéance du sens commun.”
Related: éblouissant, éblouissement
Inherited from Middle French esblouir, from Old French esbleuir (“to dazzle”), from Vulgar Latin *exblaudō (“to dazzle”, verb), from ex- + *blaudō (“to overwhelm, to make someone weak”, verb), from Frankish *blōthijan, *blauthijan (“to overcome, make weak”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþijaną (“to make weak, make void, soften”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlaw- (“weak, frightened, timid”). Cognate with Old High German blōdi (“sluggish, feeble, physically weak”) ( > German blöde), Old English blēaþ