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Amaze v. t. (past & past part. amazed; pres. part. amazing)

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. (Obs.) "A labyrinth to amaze his foes."

To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." "And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?"

Synonyms: To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex; surprise. Amaze, Astonish. Amazement includes the notion of bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It expresses a state in which one does not know what to do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at what we can not in the least account for. Astonishment also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which one is stunned by the vastness or greatness of something, or struck with some degree of horror, as when one is overpowered by the enormity of an act, etc.

Amaze v. t. Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. (Chiefly poetic) "The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze."

Amaze v. i. To be astounded. (Archaic)

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"Amazed" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen such a sight. I had lost all my standards of comparison. Compared to it, my little home streams would not fill a pint cup; and, like a man suddenly ushered into a new world, I was amazed at the scene before me. Mere amplitude of the most ordinary elements of water and alluvial land has done this. The onward rush of eternal waters was an idea vaguely floating in my mind. The Indians appeared to have embodied this idea in ...

— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... people to be amazed, Mostyn," she said, "if you treat them to such surprises. Of course I am glad to see you. ...

— The Betrayal • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... moment Mrs. Horncastle was amazed and discomfited, although she saw, with the inscrutable instinct of her sex, no inconsistency between the Kitty of those days and the Kitty now shamefully hiding from her husband in the same hotel. No doubt Kitty had some good reason ...

— The Three Partners • Bret Harte

... thus collected at Bordeaux, with a proper number of riflemen as marines, where they might have leisure to refit and procure supplies, would strike early next season a terrible blow to the British commerce in Europe, and obtain noble indemnity. The appearance of American cruisers in those seas has amazed the British merchants, and insurance will now be on the war establishment; this will give the rival nations a great superiority in commerce, of which they cannot be insensible; and as our vessels of war will ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I • Various

... began to preach, those that heard me were amazed, and said, 'Is not this he that destroyed them that called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound to the high-priest?' Hell doth know that I was a sinner; heaven doth know that I was a sinner; the world also knows that I was a sinner, a sinner ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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