amaze
/əˈmeɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.19 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot."
- "And all the people were amazed, and ſaid, Is this the ſonne of Dauid?"
- "Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe vvith her vvit, to amuſing them vvith the greatneſs of her catholic credulity."
- "One of the most remarkable speeches of that day was made by a young man, whose eccentric career was destined to amaze Europe. This was Charles Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, widely renowned, many years later, as Earl of Peterborough."
- "Rachel was amazed. For one thing it amazed her to hear [William Makepeace] Thackeray called second-rate; and then she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, […]"
- "Inſtead of thinking hovv to remedy this diſorder by rallying ſuch troops as fled, or by oppoſing freſh troops to ſtop the progreſs of the conquerors, being totally amazed by this firſt blovv, he [Pompey] returned to the camp, and in his tent, vvaited the iſſue of an event, vvhich it vvas his duty to direct, not to follovv: […]"
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle English *amasen, *amase (“to bewilder, perplex”) (attested chiefly in the past participle form, and thus often difficult to distinguish from amased (adjective)), from Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound, confuse, perplex; to amaze”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)). The English word is analysable as a- (intensifying prefix) + maze (“(archaic) to astonish, amaze, bewilder; to daze, stupefy”). The noun is derived from Late Middle English amase, from the verb: see above.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈmeɪz/
- British English: /əˈmeɪz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
amazes (present, singular)
amazing (participle, present)
amazed (participle, past)
amazed (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
amazed (first person, past)
amazest (archaic, present)
amazed (past, second person)
amazedst (archaic, past)
amazeth (archaic, present)
amazed (past, singular)