amaze
Plural: amazes
Verb
Verb Forms: amazed, amazing, amazes
- To surprise or impress someone greatly.
- affect with wonder
- "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise.
- To stun or stupefy (someone).
- To bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself).
- To fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to terrify.
- To experience amazement; to be astounded.
Noun
- Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this.
- Fear, terror.
- Stupefaction of the mind; bewilderment; (countable) an instance of this.
Examples
- He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- I never cease to amaze myself with the obscure words I know.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
astonish, astound, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex, amaze, amazement, suprise, wow
Scrabble Score: 16
amaze: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordamaze: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
amaze: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary