labyrinth
/ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/ verb C2- To enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth.
- To arrange in the form of a labyrinth.
- To twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path.
- To become lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth.
He/she/it labyrinths · Past labyrinthed · Past participle labyrinthed · -ing form labyrinthing
Verb forms
- Base form
- labyrinth
- He/she/it
- labyrinths
- Past
- labyrinthed
- Past participle
- labyrinthed
- -ing form
- labyrinthing
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We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we emerged into Farrington Street.
It is, as I have said, a labyrinth of an old house, especially the original wing, which is now practically uninhabited; but we ransacked every room and cellar without discovering the least sign of the missing man.
He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.
Then following the clew that, in the hands of the Abbé Faria, had been so skilfully used to guide him through the Dædalian labyrinth of probabilities, he thought that the Cardinal Spada, anxious not to be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, followed the line marked by the notches in the rock, and at the end of it had buried his treasure.
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