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amaze - Verb

The verb amaze has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. amaze, astonish, astound -- (cause to be amazed)
2. perplex, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, stupify, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound, trounce -- (be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!")

Overview of adj amazing

The adj amazing has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. amazing, astonishing -- (surprising greatly; "she does an amazine amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks")
2. amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing -- (inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent")