faze
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faze
- /feɪz/ US, UK
- /fæɪz/ Australia
Sounds like phase · Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”).
Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.
verb fazes · fazing · fazed · phase · feaze
- To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
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verb to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb
| Español | inmutar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 使担忧 |
| Português | amedrontar |
| Français | effrayer |
| Deutsch | aus der Fassung bringen, in Unruhe versetzen, abschrecken, schrecken |
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