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maze

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maze  (mz)
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 U.S.
1. To bewilder or astonish.
2. To stupefy; daze. See Regional Note at possum.

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

maze
Noun
1. a complex network of paths or passages designed to puzzle people who try and find their way through or out of it
2. a puzzle in which the player must trace a path through a complex network of lines without touching or crossing any of them
3. any confusing network or system: a maze of regulations [from amaze]

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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mazemaze - complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
system - 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"
perplexity - trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

maze
noun web, puzzle, confusion, tangle, snarl, mesh, labyrinth, imbroglio, convolutions, complex network
Translations
Spanish maze [meɪz] nlaberinto
French maze [meɪz] nlabyrinthe m, dédale m
German maze [meɪz] nIrrgarten m (fig); Wirrwarr m
Italian maze [meɪz] nlabirinto, dedalo

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She had interminably turned upon her tracks, she had crossed and recrossed her haphazard path till it resembled nothing so much as a puzzling maze of pencilled lines without a meaning.
Harris asked me if I'd ever been in the maze at Hampton Court.
She had a way of turning them swiftly upon an object and holding them there as if lost in some inward maze of contemplation or thought.
 
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