maze´like´

maze´like´
maze «mayz», noun, verb, maz, maz|ing.
–n.
1. a) a network of paths or lines designed to be hard to find one's way through: »

A guide led us through the maze of tunnels in the cave. He turned short into one of the mazes of the wood (Scott).

b) Figurative. any complicated arrangement, such as of streets or buildings: »

Bath was then a maze of only four or five hundred houses (Macaulay).

c) Figurative. intricate windings; intricacy: »

a maze of errors. Here would the good Peter…watch the mazes of the dance (Washington Irving).

2. Figurative. a state of confusion; muddled condition: »

He was in such a maze that he couldn't speak.

SYNONYM(S): perplexity, bewilderment.
–v.t. Archaic.
1. to stupefy; daze: »

Finding This tumult 'bout my door…It somewhat maz'd me (Ben Jonson).

2. to bewilder; perplex.
[variant of amaze]
maze´like´, adjective.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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