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faze

[feyz]
–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


disconcert, discomfit, perturb, fluster, confound.
faze   (fāz)   
tr.v.   fazed, faz·ing, faz·es
To disrupt the composure of; disconcert. See Synonyms at embarrass.

[Middle English fesen, to drive away, frighten, from Old English fēsian.]

Faze

Faze\, v. t. See Feeze.

faze 
1830 Amer.Eng. variant of Kentish dialect feeze "to frighten, alarm, discomfit" (c.1440), from O.E. fesian, fysian "drive away," from P.Gmc. *fausjanan.
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