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amaze
English
Etymology
From Middle English *amasen (“to bewilder, perplex”), from Old English ?masian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ?- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound”), equivalent to a- +? maze.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??me?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
Verb
amaze (third-person singular simple present amazes, present participle amazing, simple past and past participle amazed)
- (transitive) To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. [from 16th c.]
- 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning
- Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.
- 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning
- (intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of B. Taylor to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious. [13th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
- (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic. [16th-18th c.]
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
- [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […]
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
Related terms
- amazing
- amazement
Translations
Noun
amaze (uncountable)
- (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:
- Shattuck looked at him in amaze.
- 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1361:
- She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
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Alternative forms
- amize
Noun
amaze
- wonder, amazement
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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amazes
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??me?z?z/
Verb
amazes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amaze
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