amaze
pronunciation
How to pronounce amaze in British English:
UK [əˈmeɪz]
How to pronounce amaze in American English:
US [əˈmeɪz]
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- Verb:
- affect with wonder
- be a mystery or bewildering to
Word Origin
- amaze
- amaze: [OE] Old English āmasian meant ‘stupefy’ or ‘stun’, with perhaps some reminiscences of an original sense ‘stun by hitting on the head’ still adhering to it. Some apparently related forms in Scandinavian languages, such as Swedish masa ‘be sluggish’ and Norwegian dialect masast ‘become unconscious’, suggest that it may originally have been borrowed from Old Norse.The modern sense ‘astonish’ did not develop until the end of the 16th century; Shakespeare was one of its earliest exponents: ‘Crystal eyes, whose full perfection all the world amazes’, Venus and Adonis 1592. By the end of the 13th century both the verb and its related noun had developed a form without the initial a-, and in the late 14th century the word – maze – had begun to be applied to a deliberately confusing structure.=> maze
- amaze (v.)
- early 13c., amasian "stupefy, make crazy," from a-, probably used here as an intensive prefix, + -masian, related to maze (q.v.). Sense of "overwhelm with wonder" is from 1580s. Related: Amazed; amazing.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Women have strengths that amaze men .
- 2. Even after all these years , running continues to amaze me .
- 3. Show this video to dad on his special day and amaze him .
- 4. Check out the top 10 most popular cocktails , mix them a drink and you will amaze them !
- 5. Modern magicians use high-tech tools to create wonderful illusions to amaze the audience .