amaze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Base: maze
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: amazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: amazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: amaze
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: amaze
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: amaze
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: amazest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: amazedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: amazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: amazeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: amaze
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: amaze
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: amaze
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: amazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: amazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
And all the people were amazed, and ſaid, Is this the ſonne of Dauid?
Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe vvith her vvit, to amuſing them vvith the greatneſs of her catholic credulity.
One of the most remarkable speeches of that day was made by a young man, whose eccentric career was destined to amaze Europe. This was Charles Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, widely renowned, many years later, as Earl of Peterborough.
Rachel was amazed. For one thing it amazed her to hear [William Makepeace] Thackeray called second-rate; and then she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, […]
gloss: To stun or stupefy (someone).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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 direct, not to follovv: […]
gloss: To bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself).
pos: verb
tags: also
obsolete
reflexive
transitive
examples: The many musits thought the which he goes / Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.
[T]heir [flies'] breeding is ſo various and vvonderful, that I might eaſily amaze my ſelf, and tire you in a relation of them.
gloss: To fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to terrify.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
poetic
transitive
examples: It [fear] amaſeth many men that are to ſpeake, or ſhevv themſelues in publike aſſemblies, or before ſome great personages, […]
Novv you muſt bee ſure […] to carry the point or top of the Rod dovvnevvard; by vvhich meanes the ſhadovv of your ſelfe, and Rod too vvill be the leaſt offenſive to the Fiſh, for the ſight of any ſhadovv amazes the fiſh, and ſpoiles your ſport, of vvhich you muſt take a great care.
gloss: To experience amazement; to be astounded.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Madam amaze not, ſee his Maieſtie / Returnd vvith glory from the holy land.
Pealing rays and trumpet-blazes,— / Eye is blinded, ear amazes: […]
Synonyms: amaze
astonish
astound
bewitch
surprise
wow
Related words: maze
mazed
confuse
Derived words: amazeballs
amazed
amazedly
amazedness
amazement
amazing
amazingly
amazingness
unamazed
unamazedly
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