Amazoning

Verb

Amazon (third-person singular simple present Amazons, present participle Amazoning, simple past and past participle Amazoned)

1. (transitive) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick and mortar competition.
   • Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.1998 November 4, George Anders, “Discomfort Zone: Some Big Companies Long to Embrace Web But Settle for Flirtation — They Fear Online Marketing Could Cause Sales Staffs And Distributors to Rebel — A...
2. (transitive) To order (something) on Amazon.
   • […] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”2025 June 30, Adrienne Matei, quoting Josh Lora, “‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2025

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