Definition of "maze" []

• An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth. (noun)
• A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost: a maze of bureaucratic divisions. (noun)
• A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal. (noun)
• Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle: a maze of government regulations. (noun)
• Chiefly Southern U.S. To bewilder or astonish. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So he placed the mouse on a giant trackball and let it run through a virtual maze from the video game Quake 2 displayed on screens."
• "The regulatory maze is so hideous that not ONE single company goes through a single DAY without violating SOMETHING."
• "More campanies are doeing this (though still the minority), but the regulatory maze is a nightmare to the point that it varies for each individual state."