a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.

any complex system or arrangement that causes bewilderment, confusion, or perplexity

Her petition was lost in a maze of bureaucratic red tape.

a state of bewilderment or confusion.

a winding movement, as in dancing.

Chiefly Dialect . to daze, perplex, or stupefy.

noun

bewilderment , convolution , entanglement , hodgepodge , imbroglio , intricacy , jungle , knot , meander , meandering , mesh , miscellany , morass , muddle , network , perplexity , puzzle , quandary , skein , snarl , tangle , torsion , twist , uncertainty , web , winding , cat\'s cradle , labyrinth , bewilder , confound , confusion , conglomeration , maelstrom , perplex , sinuosity , stupefy , warren

verb

bedaze , bemuse , benumb , stun , stupefy