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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
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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 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 2019 When Kathembo fell ill he was taken from his house to the Ebola treatment center, a maze of white tents and plastic isolation pods on the grounds of Beni’s hospital. — Washington Post, "AP Photos: Ebola’s life and death struggle in eastern Congo," 27 July 2019 Soothing courtyards with trees and breezeways will make way to a completely reworked airport, currently a maze-like assemblage of numerous renovations. — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, "Mykonos's New Airport Promises to be Worthy of Jackie O.," 25 July 2019 The gunman struck in the school's art complex, a maze of four rooms, each connected via interior hallways, that could have made the situation more complicated for the responding officers. — Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, "At Santa Fe High School, police had an active-shooter plan. Then the fog of chaos descended.," 21 May 2018These 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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