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What does "maze" mean?

Maze: Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth. "Quaint mazes on the wanton green." Shak. Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook. Wordaworth. The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error. Addison. See Labyrinth.
  2. 3.To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze. South.
  3. 4.To be bewildered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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