Antonyms for amaze

Grammar : Verb

Spell : uh-meyz

Phonetic Transcription : əˈmeɪz

Definition of amaze

Origin : early 13c., amasian "stupefy, make crazy," from a-, probably used here as an intensive prefix, + -masian, related to maze (q.v.). Sense of "overwhelm with wonder" is from 1580s. Related: Amazed; amazing.

verb surprise

Example sentences :

Alderling repeated in a tone of amaze at the inadequacy of my epithet.
Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells

Mrs Harris often and often says to me, "Sairey Gamp," she says, "you raly do amaze me!"
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Anne threw in, the only stop-gap she could catch at in her amaze.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

"Why, that's more than ever I would have looked for, Elder," exclaimed Standish in amaze.
Extract from : « Standish of Standish » by Jane G. Austin

We don't know whether Europe is harder to amaze than America.
Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley

She viewed her lover in amaze, and cold and scornful was her gaze.
Extract from : « Rippling Rhymes » by Walt Mason

Amaze, consternation, distress, were all pictured there in an instant.
Extract from : « Marion's Faith. » by Charles King

Say with what eyes we ought at courts to gaze, And pay the great our homage of amaze?
Extract from : « Essay on Man » by Alexander Pope

The children bring him in, to our amaze, And though we try to turn him out, he stays.
Extract from : « A Phenomenal Fauna » by Carolyn Wells

Beaufort is in amaze at the spirit of "that little fellow, Colonel Shaw."
Extract from : « Letters from Port Royal » by Various

Synonyms for amaze

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