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faze
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feɪz
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verb (used with object),
fazed,
faz·ing.
to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt:
The worst insults cannot faze him.
Origin:
1820–30,
Americanism; dial. form of
feeze
Can be confused:
faze,
phase
.
Synonyms
disconcert, discomfit, perturb, fluster, confound.
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faze
(feɪz)
—
vb
(
tr
) to disconcert; worry; disturb
[C19: variant of
feeze
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
faze
1830 Amer.Eng. variant of Kentish dialect feeze "to frighten, alarm, discomfit" (mid-15c.), from O.E. fesian, fysian "drive away," from P.Gmc. *fausjanan. Related: Fazed; fazing.
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Example sentences
Living in the shadow of such a horrendous catastrophe didn't
faze
us.
Not big enough to
faze
her, though, or temper her resolve.
Even being trampled by kids or dogs or run over by a lawnmower doesn't
faze
them for long.
Subzero temperatures do not
faze
a well-fed cardinal or blue jay, for instance.
The fact that torture diminishes the nation's standing doesn't seem to
faze
them.
So the work required for a graduate degree in history, he says, didn't
faze
him.
As usual, my practical, humdrum opinions didn't
faze
her.
The sample is transported through the column by the flow of inert, gaseous, mobile
faze
.
They willingly discussed adaptations that would be needed for me to be successful and these did not seem to
faze
them at all.
There was a distinct lack of rave in the reviews, but that didn't
faze
the fan base.
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