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ENGLISH: amazing - CREOLE: etonan

Overview of verb amaze

The verb amaze has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (4) amaze, astonish, astound -- (affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!")

2. (1) perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound -- (be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me")

Overview of adj amazing

The adj amazing has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (5) amazing, astonishing -- (surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks")

2. (5) amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing -- (inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent")