Definition of amazes Amazes
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What does amazes mean?
Part of speech
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| amaze - affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!" | ||
| astonish, astound | ||
| surprise cause to be surprised; "The news really surprised me" | ||
| dazzle amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill; "Her arguments dazzled everyone"; "The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps" | ||
| amaze - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" | ||
| perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, dumbfound | ||
| bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, confuse, throw make stupid with alcohol | ||
| puzzle over try to solve | ||
| figure out, puzzle out, solve, lick, work out, work find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" | ||
| mix up, stump remove tree stumps from; "stump a field" | ||
| riddle set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle" | ||
| elude, escape escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- amaze (v. t.)
To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. - amaze (v. t.)
To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. - amaze (v. i.)
To be astounded. - amaze (v. t.)
Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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amaze
To overwhelm with surprise or sudden wonder.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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amaze
a-māz′, v.t. to confound with surprise or wonder.—n. astonishment: perplexity (much less common than Amaze′ment).—adv. Amaz′edly, with amazement or wonder.—n. Amaze′ment, Amaz′edness (rare), surprise mingled with wonder: astonishment.—p.adj. Amaze′ing, causing amazement, astonishment: astonishing.—adv. Amaz′ingly. [Pfx. a-, and Maze.]
