mazed

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.

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

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

mazed - perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school" at sea, baffled, bewildered, confounded, confused, mixed-up, befuddled, bemused, lost perplexed - full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world"