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faze

  [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

Synonyms:
disconcert, discomfit, perturb, fluster, confound.
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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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