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faze

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16
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16
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/feɪz/
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/feɪz/ · /fæɪz/

Definition of faze

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verb

  1. (informal, transitive)To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.
    “Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.”
    “But we're / Not getting anywhere. Nothing / fazes her.”
    “In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you”
    “Some individuals "can't hold their liquor" and become thoroughly intoxicated on small amounts of alcohol which would not faze most social drinkers.”
    “He sticks it out even further in the scherzo, fazing the listener with displaced accents, and then inserting a malicious pause just when we seem to have found our feet.”

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Etymology

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to…

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From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”). Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

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