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Mazed

Definition: Mazed

Mazed

Adjective

1. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mazed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

"Mazed" is a common misspelling or typo for: amazed, hazed, mashed, masked, massed, mated, maze, mused.


Synonyms: Mazed

Synonyms: at sea (adj), baffled (adj), befuddled (adj), bemused (adj), bewildered (adj), confounded (adj), confused (adj), lost (adj), mixed-up (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mazed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insanity

Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mazed

English words defined with "mazed": Mazedness. (references)
Etymologies containing "mazed": Mazedness. (references)

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Expression: Mazed

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "mazed": pisky-mazed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mazed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  mazed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Mazed

Derivations

Words beginning with "mazed": mazedly. (additional references)

Words ending with "mazed": amazed. (additional references)

Words containing "mazed": amazedly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mazed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-z"

-1 letter: adze, dame, daze, made, maze, mead.

-2 letters: adz, dam, mad, mae, med, zed.

-3 letters: ad, ae, am, de, ed, em, ma, me.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-z"
 

+1 letter: amazed.

 

+2 letters: damozel, mazedly.

 

+3 letters: amazedly, atomized, damozels, diazepam, emblazed, gazumped, imblazed, mazaedia, zemindar.

 

+4 letters: amortized, diazepams, dogmatize, dramatize, humanized, imidazole, maximized, mazaedium, melanized, metalized, moralized, racemized, randomize, romanized, womanized, zemindars, zemindary.

 

+5 letters: alchemized, aluminized, anatomized, animalized, aromatized, bamboozled, decimalize, dehumanize, demoralize, dogmatized, dogmatizer, dogmatizes, dramatized, dramatizes, emblazoned, empathized, emphasized, formalized, germanized, glamorized, gormandize, harmonized, imidazoles, macadamize, magnetized, marbleized, martyrized, mechanized, metallized, mutualized, normalized, randomized, randomizer, randomizes, summarized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mazed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 7A 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    --..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01111010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#122 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 007A 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4767927170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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