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Faze
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is bowdlerise. Does it mean:
| to bark; yelp. |
| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
Example Sentences
- Still, the thought of a six-week recuperation did not faze her.
- So the work required for a graduate degree in history, he says, didn't faze him.
- None of this, however, seems to faze the president himself.
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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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