amazes

verb

present tense third-person singular of amaze
as in surprises
to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected your ability to remember names and faces amazes me

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Recent Examples of amazes More than 30 years later, what amazes me isn’t just what that team accomplished on the field. — Charlie Davies, New York Times, 9 June 2026 This technology still amazes me. — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 8 June 2026 What still amazes a man who has to be hard to impress is the Gunnison Tunnel. — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 June 2026 The second thing that strikes me more and actually amazes me is the fact that this is a story, a trope, that is repeated in most of the presentation of Agnes Pockels. — Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026 Eva’s romance with her husband, Franklin Plaskett, delights and amazes her. — Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026 What amazes me is how good human beings can be in a crisis. — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025 What amazes her is how someone chose to save these items and hang on to them for future generations. — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025 Personality-wise, Luca amazes me. — Emma Specter, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amazes
  1. surprises
  2. astonishes
  3. stuns
  4. shocks
  5. startles
  6. astounds
Verb
  • Of course, something can always happen that surprises us and throws Wall Street for a loop.
    — Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 July 2026
  • But Armand surprises himself sometimes with the admissions that come out.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 July 2026
Definition of surprises
Verb
  • More than 42,000 of those pieces were found over just the past eight years of excavation, a pace that astonishes even the researchers leading the work.
    — Ryan Brennan April 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
  • His work astonishes and moves people far beyond the fashion bubble to this day.
    — WWD Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Definition of astonishes
Verb
  • Zendaya stuns with a gold headpiece and archival Givenchy dress from 1997 ahead of a special event for The Odyssey in Paris on July 7.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026
  • Set the scene This resort stuns, with magical panoramic views of the northern coastline of Crete.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
Definition of stuns
Verb
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen shocks France by reaching the presidential runoff, losing to Jacques Chirac in a landslide.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • What shocks her even more is that Laura Kim, a classmate at Columbia, got in.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of shocks
Verb
  • Missile warning startles Dubai Earlier on Friday, a missile warning in the United Arab Emirates caused by a technical glitch underscored the ongoing tensions in the region, following the attack on the cargo vessel and Israeli strikes in Lebanon over the past few days.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • The combination of flashing light and movement startles them.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Definition of startles
Verb
  • Throughout it all, Kudrow astounds.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In the morning, after a hike through the village’s veins and up a rocky promontory topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary, the Belvedere della Madonnina astounds us with views onto the steep hills and Cala Feola—the island’s second, smaller port and Ponza’s only sandy beach.
    — Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
Definition of astounds

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