maze

maze

labyrinth; any complex system that causes confusion: a maze of government regulations; a state of bewilderment: The crowded street was a maze of pushing and screaming people.
Not to be confused with:maize – a pale yellow resembling the color of corn: She wore a lovely maize dress.

maze

M0047000 (māz)n.1. a. An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.b. A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost: a maze of bureaucratic divisions.2. A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.3. Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle: a maze of government regulations.tr.v. mazed, maz·ing, maz·es Chiefly Southern US 1. To bewilder or astonish.2. To stupefy; daze.

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[Middle English mase, confusion, maze, from masen, to confuse, daze, from Old English āmasian, to confound; see amaze.]

maze

(meɪz) n1. a complex network of paths or passages, esp one with high hedges in a garden, designed to puzzle those walking through it. Compare labyrinth¹2. a similar system represented diagrammatically as a pattern of lines3. any confusing network of streets, pathways, etc: a maze of paths. 4. a state of confusionvb an archaic or dialect word for amaze[C13: see amaze] ˈmazeˌlike adj ˈmazement n

maze

(meɪz)

n., v. mazed, maz•ing. n. 1. a confusing network of paths or passages; labyrinth. 2. an intricate system that daunts or perplexes. 3. Chiefly Dial. a state of bewilderment. v.t. 4. Chiefly Dial. to daze; stupefy. [1250–1300; Middle English mase, n. use of aph. variant of amasen to amaze] mazed•ly (ˈmeɪzd li, ˈmeɪ zɪd-) adv. mazed′ness, n. maze′like`, adj.

Maze

 a complexity of winding paths or passages.Examples: maze of arteries, 1615; of bracken and briar, 1872; of history, 1781; of metaphor and music, 1837; of dirty traditions and foolish ceremonies, 1542.

maze

Past participle: mazed
Gerund: mazing

Imperative
maze
maze

Present
I maze
you maze
he/she/it mazes
we maze
you maze
they maze

Preterite
I mazed
you mazed
he/she/it mazed
we mazed
you mazed
they mazed

Present Continuous
I am mazing
you are mazing
he/she/it is mazing
we are mazing
you are mazing
they are mazing

Present Perfect
I have mazed
you have mazed
he/she/it has mazed
we have mazed
you have mazed
they have mazed

Past Continuous
I was mazing
you were mazing
he/she/it was mazing
we were mazing
you were mazing
they were mazing

Past Perfect
I had mazed
you had mazed
he/she/it had mazed
we had mazed
you had mazed
they had mazed

Future
I will maze
you will maze
he/she/it will maze
we will maze
you will maze
they will maze

Future Perfect
I will have mazed
you will have mazed
he/she/it will have mazed
we will have mazed
you will have mazed
they will have mazed

Future Continuous
I will be mazing
you will be mazing
he/she/it will be mazing
we will be mazing
you will be mazing
they will be mazing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been mazing
you have been mazing
he/she/it has been mazing
we have been mazing
you have been mazing
they have been mazing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been mazing
you will have been mazing
he/she/it will have been mazing
we will have been mazing
you will have been mazing
they will have been mazing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been mazing
you had been mazing
he/she/it had been mazing
we had been mazing
you had been mazing
they had been mazing

Conditional
I would maze
you would maze
he/she/it would maze
we would maze
you would maze
they would maze

Past Conditional
I would have mazed
you would have mazed
he/she/it would have mazed
we would have mazed
you would have mazed
they would have mazed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	maze - complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lostlabyrinthsystem - instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a small computer"
	2.	maze - something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations"tangle, snarlperplexity - trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

maze

noun web, puzzle, confusion, tangle, snarl, mesh, labyrinth, imbroglio, convolutions, complex network the maze of rules and regulations a maze of dimly-lit corridors

maze

nounSomething that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex:cat's cradle, entanglement, jungle, knot, labyrinth, mesh (often used in plural), morass, skein, snarl, tangle, web.verbChiefly Regional. To dull the senses, as with a heavy blow, a shock, or fatigue:bedaze, bemuse, benumb, daze, stun, stupefy.

Translations

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maze

(meiz) noun a deliberately confusing series of paths, often surrounded by walls or hedges, from which it's difficult to find the way out. I'm lost in a maze of rules and regulations. 迷宮 迷宫

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