amaze

Other forms of amaze

past tense

amazed·

present participle

amazing·

third person

amazes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amaze

What does amaze mean?

amaze means "affect with wonder". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amaze?

amaze has 2 syllables: a-maze. The stress falls on "maze". In IPA it is /əˈmeɪz/.

What is another word for amaze?

Close synonyms include astonish, astound, perplex, vex, stick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amaze a common word?

amaze is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with amaze?

3 words rhyme with amaze. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.