Bemuse vs Amaze - What's the difference?
bemuse | amaze |
To confuse or bewilder.
* 1735' A parson much '''be-mus'd in beer. — Alexander Pope, ''Satires of Dr. Donne versified
* 1771' [With] fairy tales '''bemused the shepherd lies. — James Foot, ''Penseroso
* 1847' The bad metaphysics with which they '''bemuse themselves. — Hugh Miller, ''First Impressions of England and its people
(archaic, humorous) To devote to the Muses.
* 1705' When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably '''Be-mus'd . — Alexander Pope, ''Letters
(obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
(obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
* Bible, Matthew xii. 23
* Goldsmith
To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 103:
* 1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1361:
As verbs the difference between bemuse and amaze
is that bemuse is to confuse or bewilder while amaze is to stupefy; to knock unconscious.As a noun amaze is
amazement, astonishment.bemuse
English
Verb
(bemus)amaze
English
Verb
(amaz)- a labyrinth to amaze his foes
- [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […].
- He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- And all the people were amazed , and said, Is not this the son of David?
- Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.
Noun
(-)- All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].
- Shattuck looked at him in amaze .
- She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze , dazed by her own behaviour.