Maze
[meɪz] or [mez]
Definition
(noun.) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost.
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Definition
(n.) A wild fancy; a confused notion.
(n.) Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
(n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
(v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
(v. i.) To be bewildered.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Labyrinth, meander, winding course.[2]. Intricacy, perplexity, bewilderment, embarrassment, uncertainty.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LABYRINTH]
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Definition
n. a place full of intricate windings: confusion of thought: perplexity.—v.t. to bewilder: to confuse.—adjs. Maze′ful (Spens.) Maz′y full of mazes or windings: intricate.—adv. Maz′ily.—n. Maz′iness state or quality of being mazy.
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Examples
- And what is more,' exclaimed Young John, surveying him in a doleful maze, 'he appears to mean it! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- She continued this as we wound our tedious way through the maze of subterranean passages and chambers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- When Mr. Steffens approached the vast confusion and complication of big business, he needed some hypothesis to guide him through that maze of facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A clear line of difference divided like a tangible fence her experience within this maze of motion from her experience without it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Farewell to courtly pleasure; to politic intrigue; to the maze of passion and folly! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then does she twirl and twine, a pastoral nymph of good family, through the mazes of the dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Oh, my worldly friends, pursuing the phantom, Pleasure, through the guilty mazes of Dissipation, how easy it is to be happy, if you will only be good! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At first the tripping measure lifted my spirit with it, and for a moment my eyes gladly followed the mazes of the dance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Its untouched mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hardy pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But there is the seed of an invention in it which might convert the police from mere agents of repression to kindly helpers in the mazes of a city. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We walk the pathless mazes of society, vacant of joy, till we hold this clue, leading us through that labyrinth to paradise. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was lost in the mazes of my future fortunes, and could not retrace the by-paths we had trodden together. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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