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baze

baze verb: to stupefy; frighten; alarm.

Verb

baze (third-person singular simple present bazes, present participle bazing, simple past and past participle bazed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To stupefy; frighten; alarm.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Baze

Baze (plural Bazes)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Baze

the Baze

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) Bayswater Road, a street in London, England.

Forms of baze

Verb
third-person singular presentbazes
present participlebazing
past participlebazed
pastbazed
alternative formbaize
Proper noun
pluralBazes

Origin of baze

Uncertain, but apparently identical with Dutch bazen, verbazen (“to astonish, stupefy”), obsolete German basen (“to rave”). Compare also Scots baise (“confusion, bewilderment”).

Questions about baze

What does baze mean?
Baze means to stupefy; frighten; alarm.
What part of speech is baze?
Baze can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of baze?
The past tense of baze is bazed.

Words near baze in the dictionary

  1. bazarucos
  2. Bazaruto Archipelago
  3. bazas
  4. bazazz
  5. Bazball
  6. baze
  7. bazedoxifene
  8. bazeen
  9. Bazell
  10. Bazells
  11. Bazemore

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