Definizione monolingua

amaze

amaze (third-person singular simple present amazes, present participle amazing, simple past and past participle amazed)

1. (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious. [13th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books 2001, p. 261:

     [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages [...].

3. To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. [from 16th c.]

   He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.

amaze (uncountable)

1. (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the ""Stranger Peoples"" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:

     Shattuck looked at him in amaze.

Definizione dizionario amaze

	sorprendere
	To overwhelm with surprise or sudden wonder.

meravigliare

sbalordire

stupire

confondere

maravigliare

Altri significati:

(now poetic) Amazement, astonishment. [from 16th c.]

to fill with surprise, astonish

(obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic. [16th-18th c.]

(obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious. [13th-17th c.]

To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. [from 16th c.]