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   Maze

   /māz/

   

   noun

   • 1. a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way: "the house has a maze and a walled Italian garden"
   • ▪ a complex network of paths or passages: "they were trapped in a menacing maze of corridors" Similar labyrinthnetwork of pathscomplex networklabyrinthwebtanglewarrenmeshjunglesnarlimbroglio
   • ▪ a confusing mass of information: "a maze of petty regulations"

   verb

   • 1. be dazed and confused: archaic, dialect "she was still mazed with the drug she had taken"

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting delirium or delusion): probably from the base of amaze, of which the verb is a shortening.

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • M

     3

   • A

     1

   • Z

     10

   • E

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