Definition of maze

languid Definition: (adjective) without energy; slow, sluggish, listless. Petersons.com

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maze    (mz) KEY  

NOUN:

1. 1. An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.
   2. A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost: a maze of bureaucratic divisions.
2. A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.
3. Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle: a maze of government regulations.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
Chiefly Southern U.S. mazed , maz·ing , maz·es

1. To bewilder or astonish.
2. To stupefy; daze. See Regional Note at possum.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English mase, confusion, maze, from masen, to confuse, daze, from Old English masian, to confound ; see amaze

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