mazed; mazing
1
a
: a confusing intricate network of passages
b
: something confusingly elaborate or complicated
a maze of regulations
2
chiefly dialectal
: a state of bewilderment
Synonyms
Examples of maze in a Sentence
Verb
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
Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
State of play: The massive Halloween display, with a haunted maze that winds around his house and back out the other side, is now a neighborhood mainstay, open on weekends in October and on Halloween.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
In the snap, which was also shared by the ice cream shop West End Creamery in Massachusetts, Belichick and Hudson stood with their arms around each other in the center of a group in front of the entrance to a corn maze that was created in his honor.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
Read the poems that Edgar Allan Poe (probably could have) composed while lost in a corn maze.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The first challenge is physically demanding and includes a mud crawl, wood chips, a tall tower climb and a table maze.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
State of play: The massive Halloween display, with a haunted maze that winds around his house and back out the other side, is now a neighborhood mainstay, open on weekends in October and on Halloween.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
In the snap, which was also shared by the ice cream shop West End Creamery in Massachusetts, Belichick and Hudson stood with their arms around each other in the center of a group in front of the entrance to a corn maze that was created in his honor.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
Read the poems that Edgar Allan Poe (probably could have) composed while lost in a corn maze.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Maze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maze. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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maze
noun
: a path complicated by at least one blind alley and used in learning experiments and in intelligence tests
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