amaze
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /əˈmeɪz/
amaze (amazes, present participle amazing; past and past participle amazed)
- (transitive) To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. [from 16th c.]
- He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 12:23 ↗:
- And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
- Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.
- (intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
- (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious. [13th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venvs and Adonis, London: Imprinted by Richard Field, […], OCLC 837166078 ↗; Shakespeare’s Venvs & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, OCLC 19803734 ↗:
- a labyrinth to amaze his foes
- (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic. [16th-18th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
- [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […]
- French: stupéfier
- German: verwundern
- Portuguese: espantar, surpreender
- Russian: изумля́ть
- Spanish: pasmar, sorprender, asombrar
amaze (uncountable)
- (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:
- Shattuck looked at him in amaze.
- 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1361:
- She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
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