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/əˈmeɪz/ · verb
To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise..
He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
And all the people were amazed, and ſaid, Is this the ſonne of Dauid?
Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe vvith her vvit, to amuſing them vvith the greatneſs of her catholic credulity.
One of the most remarkable speeches of that day was made by a young man, whose eccentric career was destined to amaze Europe. This was Charles Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, widely renowned, many years later, as Earl of Peterborough.
Rachel was amazed. For one thing it amazed her to hear [William Makepeace] Thackeray called second-rate; and then she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, […]
Inſtead of thinking hovv to remedy this diſorder by rallying ſuch troops as fled, or by oppoſing freſh troops to ſtop the progreſs of the conquerors, being totally amazed by this firſt blovv, he [Pompey] returned to the camp, and in his tent, vvaited the iſſue of an event, vvhich it vvas his duty to direct, not to follovv: […]
The many musits thought the which he goes / Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.
[T]heir [flies'] breeding is ſo various and vvonderful, that I might eaſily amaze my ſelf, and tire you in a relation of them.
Use amaze when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Amaze means To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise..
Common synonyms include amaze, astonish, astound, bewitch.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
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