How do you use the word "amaze" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "amaze": His aristocratic manners amaze me. Tom never ceases to amaze me.

Amaze Meaning

/əˈmeɪz/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise.

verbTo stun or stupefy (someone).

Sentence Examples

His aristocratic manners amaze me.

Tom never ceases to amaze me.

There is nothing that can amaze my dad.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

get beat stick

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The magician's tricks never fail to ____ children.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The magician's newest trick continues to ____ audiences worldwide.

Word Origin & History

The verb is derived from Middle English *amasen, *amase (“to bewilder, perplex”) (attested chiefly in the past participle form, and thus often difficult to distinguish from amased (adjective)), from Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound, confuse, perplex; to amaze”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)). The English word is analysable as a- (intensifying prefix) + maze (“(archaic) to astonish, amaze, bewilder; to daze, stupefy”). The noun is derived from Late Middle English amase, from the verb: see above.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"And all the people were amazed, and ſaid, Is this the ſonne of Dauid?" — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 12:23, column 1:

"Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe vvith her vvit, to amuſing them vvith the greatneſs of her catholic credulity." — 1759, [Oliver Goldsmith], “Of the Present State of Polite Learning in Italy”, in An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 64:

"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." — 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VI, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 33:

"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, […]" — 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XVI, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 263:

"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: […]" — 1769, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “From the Beginning of the First Triumvirate to the Death of Pompey”, in The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire. […], volume I, London: […] S. Baker and G. Leigh, […]; T[homas] Davies, […]; and L. Davis, […], →OCLC, page 479:

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