amazed English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.
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*:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed .
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 citation
, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
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Verb
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(amaze)
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amazes English
Verb
(head)
(amaze)
amaze English
Verb
( amaz)
(obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
(obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
* Shakespeare
- a labyrinth to amaze his foes
(obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
- [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […].
To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
- He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
* Bible, Matthew xii. 23
- And all the people were amazed , and said, Is not this the son of David?
* Goldsmith
- Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.
To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
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Related terms
* amazing
* amazement
Noun
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* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
- All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].
* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 103:
- Shattuck looked at him in amaze .
* 1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1361:
- She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze , dazed by her own behaviour.
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