mazed

«mazed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: dazed, bewildered — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

dazed, bewildered

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Confused and bewildered. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "dazed" or "confused". "Amazed" is related but means surprised.

examples

• Mazed with fear he struggled on toward the flickering light that looked like help and safety. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• The greeting had stopped, but the tears were standing on its cheek, and the tiddy thing looked mazed like in the moonshine and the night air. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• Naturally the poor folk were strangely feared and mazed, and a lot of them went to the Wise Woman who dwelt in the old mill, and asked if so be she could find out where the Moon was gone. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

dazed

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 7 (Torah 0, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.8 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mazed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.