Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.
- noun A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost.
- noun 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.
- noun Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
- transitive verb To bewilder or astonish.
- transitive verb To stupefy; daze.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confuse; bewilder; amaze; especially, to confuse by intricacy.
- To be bewildered, perplexed, or puzzled.
- To wind intricately.
- noun A variant of
mease , 1. - noun Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; bewilderment.
- noun Anything intended to confuse or mislead; a snare; a deception.
- noun A wild fancy; a confused notion; an error.
- noun A baffling and confusing network of paths or passages; a labyrinth: as, the maze of Hampton Court in England; a winding and turning; hence, a perplexed or embarrassing state of things; intricate disorder; entanglement: as, he found affairs all in a maze.
- noun Wonder; matter of wonder or curiosity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To be bewildered.
- transitive verb To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
- noun obsolete A wild fancy; a confused notion.
- noun Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
- noun A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
- noun A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
labyrinth ; apuzzle consisting of acomplicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way. - noun Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a
tangle . - noun Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of
bewilderment . - verb to
amaze ,astonish ,bewilder - verb to
daze ,stupefy , orconfuse someone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
- noun something jumbled or confused
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The regulatory maze is so hideous that not ONE single company goes through a single DAY without violating SOMETHING.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Is What You Get For Cooperating with the Government 2009
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More campanies are doeing this (though still the minority), but the regulatory maze is a nightmare to the point that it varies for each individual state.
The Need for Savings, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So he placed the mouse on a giant trackball and let it run through a virtual maze from the video game Quake 2 displayed on screens.
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The maze is punctuated by dire chemical hazard placards.
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Bilbo: Let's say the only way out of the maze is to first take one left.
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Let's say the only way out of the maze is to first take one left.
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The manner in which you navigate the maze is solely your choice: timidly and fearful of what is around the next corner; confidently yet impatient to get to the next juncture; calmly, taking time to enjoy the scenery along the way.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2008 » August 2008
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The rep I†™ m supposed to meet in this humid section of a hedge maze is called Rainbow Shark.
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The rep I†™ m supposed to meet in this humid section of a hedge maze is called Rainbow Shark.
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The lizard maze is 150 feet long, 45 feet wide and 25 feet tall.
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