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Verb

amaze (third-person singular simple present amazes, present participle amazing, simple past and past participle amazed)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (obsolete, transitive) 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...1769, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “From the Beginning of the First Triumvirate to the Death of Pompey”, in The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western...
3. (also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself).
   • The many musits thought the which he goes / Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 114], lines [683–684]; republished as Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent...
4. (obsolete, poetic, transitive) 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, […]1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Feare”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section...
5. (archaic, intransitive) To experience amazement; to be astounded.
   • Madam amaze not, ſee his Maieſtie / Returnd vvith glory from the holy land.1593, [George Peele], The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First, […], London: […] Abell Ieffes, and are to be solde by William Barley, […], →OCLC, signature A3, recto

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