amaze

amaze

Things that amaze fill you with confusion and mystery — or they just impress you. Either way, amazing things make an impact.

There are two main meanings to amaze. The first has to do with causing a feeling of puzzlement or awe. An impressive magician amazes people with tricks. Anything impressive can also amaze. A great basketball player might amaze you with a rim-rattling dunk or by hitting dozens of free throws in a row. Things that amaze also astound, astonish, and impress. Amazing things are also awesome: in the old of sense "causing awe" and the recent sense of "really cool."

Definitions of amaze

v affect with wonder

“Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!”

Synonyms:: astonish, astound

Types:: dazzle
amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill

Type of:: surprise
cause to be surprised

v be a mystery or bewildering to

Synonyms:: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; mix up, stump
cause to be perplexed or confounded; riddle
set a difficult problem or riddle; elude, escape
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; defy, refuse, resist
elude, especially in a baffling way

Type of:: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly

v affect with wonder

v be a mystery or bewildering to

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