labyrinthnoun/ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/

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  human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.

  • Mrs. Churchill liked the interminable labyrinths of the Cyrus and the Cassandra, because she had liked them in the days of her girlhood. Youth identifies itself with the romance; it is the heroic knight, or the lovely lady, of which it reads; it lives amid those fine creations; its sweetest hours are given to dreams which soon "Fade into the light of common day."
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  agriculturebusinesshorticultureA maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.

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  human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.

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  human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.

  • Recent investigations into alleged wrongdoings at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveal an apparent labyrinth of deceit, competitiveness, and a sluggish approach to fighting AIDS/ARC.
  • Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.
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  anatomymedicinesciencesA tortuous anatomical structure:

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  anatomybiologymedicineA tortuous anatomical structure:

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  Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.

labyrinthverb/ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/

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  To enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth.

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  To arrange in the form of a labyrinth.

  • It is said to have been labyrinthed by secret exits and cunning contrivances to facilitate the escape of fugitives from the law.
  • By labyrinthing, close axial running clearances can be increased without reducing efficiency.
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  To twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path.

  • We labyrinthed through it, meeting scores of panty-clad and moccasined Indians and barefoot women and girls toiling marketward under atrocious burdens; for the day was Sunday.
  • Hands clasped together, Linda and Ron walked through the huge doorway leading to the hall that would labyrinth it's^([sic]) way to the parking lot.
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  To become lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth.

  • They arrive at their different destinations long before day, and make their attack about day-break, and seldom fail to kill or make prisoners of the whole family, as the people know nothing of the matter until they are thus labyrinthed.
  • He favored, he said, "a kind of half-sleep where I labyrinthed myself."