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Synonyms for maze
Synonyms: Verb
addle, baffle, bamboozle, beat, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, buffalo, confound, confuse, discombobulate, disorient, flummox, fox, fuddle, get, gravel, muddle, muddy, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, vex
Synonyms: Noun
labyrinth, rabbit warren, warren
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Examples of maze in a Sentence
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I'm completely mazed by the multitude of plans for health insurance.Noun
The experiment measured the time it took for a mouse to find its way through a maze to get its reward of cheese. The school is a maze of classrooms. a maze of rules and regulations
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Check out a teaser above for the Us attraction, which will elicit shrieks alongside the parks’ first-ever Ghostbusters maze and another turn for Stranger Things. — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, "Universal's Halloween Horror Nights to feature maze inspired by Jordan Peele's Us," 7 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The maze is open Tuesday through Sunday until Sept. 22. — oregonlive, "Aggressive cougar killed near Corvallis: Morning briefing for Thursday, Sept. 5," 5 Sep. 2019 The corn maze, which opens Aug. 31 and runs through Nov. 3, is open Wednesday to Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday and holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $10; children 4 to 12 are $5; 3 and under free. — Camila Vallejo, courant.com, "Say goodbye to summer: 11 things to do over Labor Day weekend," 26 Aug. 2019 The warehouse was a maze of workspaces, with wooden furniture and musical instruments piled up. — Zusha Elinson, WSJ, "Ghost Ship Fire Defendant Takes Stand," 9 July 2019 The space resembled an industrial Santa’s workshop, a complicated maze of automatic machines that rolled, spun and packed countless rolls of toilet paper. — Christopher Leonard, ProPublica, "Rising Profits, Rising Injuries: The Safety Crisis at Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific," 8 Aug. 2019 The space resembled an industrial Santa’s workshop, a complicated maze of automatic machines that rolled, spun and packed countless rolls of toilet paper. — Fortune, "Rising Profits, Rising Injuries: Koch Industries Faces a Safety Crisis at Georgia-Pacific," 8 Aug. 2019 No, not the modern, 21-and-up, craft beer-focused bars with a curated array of old coin-op machines, but the messy, maze-like spaces that utilized way too much ultraviolet lighting and where I was once forced to ration my quarters. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, "What to play: Beyond ‘198X’s’ love letter to video arcades, how games shape our worldviews," 29 July 2019 Her four children were still asleep in her concrete block house in Abobo, a maze of shops and houses occupied by dockworkers, taxi drivers, factory laborers and street sellers. — Anemona Hartocollis, BostonGlobe.com, "Less waste and more schools, one plastic brick at a time," 27 July 2019 Her four children were still asleep in her cement block house in Abobo, a maze of shops and houses occupied by dockworkers, taxi drivers, factory laborers and street sellers. — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, "Less Trash, More Schools — One Plastic Brick at a Time," 27 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'maze.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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