Amazed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amaze \A*maze"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amazed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Amazing}.] [Pref. a- + maze.]
     1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.]
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              A labyrinth to amaze his foes.        --Shak.


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     2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to
        overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly.
        "Amazing Europe with her wit." --Goldsmith.
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              And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not
              this the son of David?                --Matt. xii.
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     Syn: To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex;
          surprise.
  
     Usage: {Amaze}, {Astonish}. Amazement includes the notion of
            bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It
            expresses a state in which one does not know what to
            do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at
            what we can not in the least account for. Astonishment
            also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which
            one is stunned by the vastness or greatness of
            something, or struck with some degree of horror, as
            when one is overpowered by the ?normity of an act,
            etc.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  amazed
       adj : filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or
             shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing
             ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the
             vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded
             viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City
             bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned
             scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
             [syn: {astonied}, {astonished}, {astounded}, {stunned}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "amazed":
     agape, aghast, agog, all agog, astonished, astounded, at gaze,
     awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, breathless,
     captivated, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted,
     enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated,
     flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe,
     in awe of, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed,
     openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder,
     spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised,
     thunderstruck, under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck,
     wondering