Synonyms for amaze
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : uh-meyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈmeɪz |
Top 10 synonyms for amaze Other synonyms for the word amaze
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for amaze
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