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An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.
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A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost: a maze of bureaucratic divisions.
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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.
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Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle: a maze of government regulations.
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Chiefly Southern U.S. To bewilder or astonish.
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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.