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faze
[
feyz
]
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Origin
faze
/
feɪz
/
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[
feyz
]
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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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to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
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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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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.
The size of a meal does not
faze
these large snakes.
Even being trampled by kids or dogs or run over by a lawnmower doesn't
faze
them for long.
The current lack of good quality programming doesn't
faze
the leaders of this up-and-coming company.
But the reaction apparently did not
faze
the board, which has.
Living in the shadow of such a horrendous catastrophe didn't
faze
us.
While that did not
faze
me, it may have had an effect on others.
The fact that torture diminishes the nation's standing doesn't seem to
faze
them.
Those dark clouds do not
faze
the new money in subprime.
But if rising interest rates don't seem to
faze
stock investors, rising volatility should.
Subzero temperatures do not
faze
a well-fed cardinal or blue jay, for instance.
Felonies that fall under a category beyond namby-pamby white-collar transgression hardly
faze
the wives, either.
Technical challenges seemed not to
faze
him, but it was the fluidity of his playing that impressed, rather than its muscularity.
None of this seems to damage the opera severely, or
faze
its composer.
In laboratory tests, cola and soda water did not
faze
the iceborne bacteria, which multiplied as the ice melted.
As usual, my practical, humdrum opinions didn't
faze
her.
Matsui did not open the box to inspect the ring, so the scam of giving him a spring training gimcrack did not
faze
him.
Not big enough to
faze
her, though, or temper her resolve.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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