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faze

verb
/feɪz/US/fæɪz/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *pent-✻ — “to go; to walk”
  2. inherited from *funsijaną✻ — “to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”
  3. inherited from *funsijan✻
  4. inherited from fēsan
  5. inherited from fēsen

Definitions

  1. To frighten or cause hesitation

    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.
    • But we're / Not getting anywhere. Nothing / fazes her.
    • In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA