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verb

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)

adjective

Amazing adj. Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

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"Amazing" Quotes from Famous Books

... awful experience followed! I was taken down at an amazing speed, held under the great hand of Blackana. We passed region after region of infernal lights, each one existing for the purpose of carrying out its part of Satan's ...

— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris

... on an adventure of her own. Clinging to a rough plank that wounded and bruised her and that filled her body with splinters, she was thrown clear over the atoll and carried away to sea. Here, under the amazing buffets of mountains of water, she lost her plank. She was an old woman nearly sixty; but she was Paumotan-born, and she had never been out of sight of the sea in her life. Swimming in the darkness, strangling, suffocating, fighting for air, she was struck a heavy blow on the ...

— South Sea Tales • Jack London

... such converse as I have endeavoured to indicate might have proved disquieting enough; but those who know Irishmen and their ways at once enter into the spirit of the thing, and enjoy it as much as the untamable jokers themselves. Nothing is more amazing to serious people than the light and easy manner in which everybody takes everything on this side of the Irish Sea. This is perfectly exemplified by the tone in which the Kerry murder is discussed. I have heard it talked over by every class of person, from a landholding peer to a not very sober car-driver, ...

— Disturbed Ireland - Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. • Bernard H. Becker

... interesting drawings showing the amazing depth and extent that vegetable roots are capable of in ...

— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon

... split in the society took place, no Regular minister had crossed the threshold of a seceder's dwelling, much less attended their services and walked home with a member of their congregation. She knew what this amazing procedure was likely to mean, if her ...

— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

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