amaze
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amaze
- /əˈmeɪz/ US, UK
Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
The verb is derived from Middle English *amasen, *amase (“to bewilder, perplex”) (attested chiefly in the past participle form, and thus often difficult to distinguish from amased (adjective)), from Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound, confuse, perplex; to amaze”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)). The English word is analysable as a- (intensifying prefix) + maze (“(archaic) to astonish, amaze, bewilder; to daze, stupefy”).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English amase, from the verb: see above.
verb amazes · amazing · amazed · amaze
- To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise. He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- To stun or stupefy (someone). Inſtead of thinking hovv to remedy this diſorder by rallying ſuch troops as fled, or by oppoſing freſh troops to ſtop the progreſs of the conquerors, being totally amazed by this firſt blovv, he [Pompey] returned to the camp, and in his tent, vvaited the iſſue of an event, vvhich it vvas his duty to
- To bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself). The many musits thought the which he goes / Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.
- To fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to terrify. It [fear] amaſeth many men that are to ſpeake, or ſhevv themſelues in publike aſſemblies, or before ſome great personages, […]
- To experience amazement; to be astounded. Madam amaze not, ſee his Maieſtie / Returnd vvith glory from the holy land.
noun amazes
- Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this. All in amaze he ſuddenly vp ſtart / VVith ſvvord in hand, and vvith the old man vvent; […]
- Fear, terror. [T]he whole rout was in amaze; his Lordſhip turned all manner of colours, my Lady fell into a ſwoon; […]
- Stupefaction of the mind; bewilderment; (countable) an instance of this. [T]he panicles or thin skins [of a horse] vvhich cleauing to the bones, doe couer the vvhole braine, are ſubiect to headache, mygram [migrane], dizineſſe, and amazes; […]
adjective more amaze · most amaze
- Clipping of amazing.amazing As incredibly amaze the aftermath in FFoD was, it would have been nice to see the post-Unicron battle for Cybertron.
