maze
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4.5
- noun
- /meɪz/
:
laberinto
- This whole place is such an enormous maze.
- a bureaucratic maze
- negotiate the maze
- way through the maze
It's more like a maze designed for us to get lost.
- It's more like a maze designed for us to get lost.
- An invisible hand guides us deeper and deeper into the dark maze of the shopping mall.
- But then I got right back into that maze, and I continued to run the rat race.
- It's really immersive, involving sounds, smells, think like a maze in a weird way.
- He has to go through something that is like a maze.
- You know, this is this is the maze you go through when Hollywood gets involved, right?
- I think in some comedians they make, it's a maze.
Examples
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It's more like a maze designed for us to get lost.
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The next afternoon, Pnina walked alone through the maze of streets behind the Russian Orthodox church.
Fiction book (1993) -
Maybe all this is just a maze designed to lead me directly back to where I started.
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I could probably reach the end of the maze without another dead end.
Fiction book (1991) -
Whoever was using it has created a maze to cover up his real identity.
Fiction book (1992) -
All of them will need to wind their way through a complicated maze of permit and approval processes.
Academic text (2003) -
We follow them through the maze of beds and patients lining the corridors.
Fiction book (1993) -
An invisible hand guides us deeper and deeper into the dark maze of the shopping mall.
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Maya relief sculptures are a maze of subtle details that resist reproduction.
Academic text (2002) -
The architect designed the garden as a maze full of twisting paths and hidden corners.
Synonyms
31
7.4
A complicated set of connected paths that is hard to find your way through
13
5.5
A confused situation that is hard to understand or solve
3
7.7
A confused, complicated situation that is hard to understand
Antonyms
How Confusing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Maze originally meant 'confusion', a meaning you can still see in the word amaze. So when we call a set of rules or a situation a maze, we mean it is confusing and hard to find a way through.