Definition of "amaze" []

• To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. (verb-transitive)
• Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. (verb-transitive)
• To cause great wonder or astonishment: a sight that amazes. (verb-intransitive)
• Amazement; wonder. (noun)

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• "I. ii.115 (240,4) [You amaze me, ladies] To _amaze_, here, is not to astonish or strike with wonder, but to perplex; to confuse; as, to put out of the intended narrative."
• "He stared at it in amaze, his brain a racing wild-fire of hypotheses to account for this far-journeyer who had adventured the night of space, threaded the stars, and now rose before him and above him, exhumed by patient anthropophagi, pitted and lacquered by its fiery bath in two atmospheres."
• "But, as I said, I was in amaze, and the next I knew was the pang of the entering steel as this clumsy provincial ran me through and charged forward, bull-like, till his hilt bruised my side and I was borne backward."