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# dass

«dass» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **daze, stun** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

daze, stun

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

In old texts, to make someone dazed or stunned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dass/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No example sentence is given, so this meaning is a guess from the word's history. No longer used today.

### primary record

daze

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.