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Mazes

[meyz] Origin

maze

[meyz] noun, verb, mazed, maz·ing.
noun
1.
a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
2.
any complex system or arrangement that causes bewilderment, confusion, or perplexity: Her petition was lost in a maze of bureaucratic red tape.
3.
a state of bewilderment or confusion.
4.
a winding movement, as in dancing.
verb (used with object)
5.
Chiefly Dialect. to daze, perplex, or stupefy.

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Mazes is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English mase, noun use of aphetic variant of amasen to amaze

mazed·ly [meyzd-lee, mey-zid-] , adverb
mazed·ness, noun
maze·like, adjective
in·ter·maze, verb (used with object), -mazed, -maz·ing.

maize, maze.
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Word Origin & History

maze
c.1300, "delusion, bewilderment," possibly from O.E. *mæs, which is suggested by the compound amasod "amazed" (see amaze). Perhaps related to Norw. dial. mas "exhausting labor." Meaning "labyrinth" first recorded late 14c.
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