English Explanatory Dictionary

baze

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To stupefy; frighten; alarm.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. Bayswater Road, a street in London, England.

Word forms

baze bazes bazing bazed baize the Baze

Etymology

Uncertain, but apparently identical with Dutch bazen, verbazen (“to astonish, stupefy”), obsolete German basen (“to rave”). Compare also Scots baise (“confusion, bewilderment”).

Related words

basen
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