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faze

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Word definitions for faze in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context informal English) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative), to perturb, to disconcert.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, American English, said to be a variant of Kentish dialect feeze "to frighten, alarm, discomfit" (mid-15c.), from Old English fesian , fysian "drive away, send forth, put to flight," from Proto-Germanic *fausjan (cognates: Swedish fösa "drive away," ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
faze \faze\ (f[=a]z), v. t. To cause to become disconcerted or disturbed. A variant form of Feeze . ``The perpetual need to learn new software doesn't faze him.''

Usage examples of faze.

But Bozo refused to yield to circumstance, or to permit the novelty of this adventure to faze him.

The fact that the funeral was for one of the noble patrons of Epsom Downs, and the tribute was in the form of a horseshoe, had not fazed Skippy for an instant.

The only thing at Anthroresearch that still fazed him a little was SHROUD, whose face was a human skull that looked at you through a more-or-less abstracted butyrate head.

He also looked like you could smack him across the chops with a bundle of re bar and not faze him.

But some things were more important than others, Cathy said, and not being fazed by Hannah Mitchell was top priority.

She did not seem to be fazed to see her boss standing in a flower-bed.

He was so heavy my armlocks and tricks did not faze him, and he was just about to pancake me when the phone rang and the bartender called Yurloko.

That both Candy and Melanie were nicely tanned, with obvious white patches of skin where their bikinis had covered their boobies and bottoms, seemed not to faze Miriam.

And while the first strokes had hardly fazed Bill, the continual dinting of those iron-hard fists had had an effect.

Sally Brewton, of all people, sounded uneasy, and nothing ever fazed Sally.

And so cold it was that Rowan wore her woolen gloves and watch cap even in the wheelhouse, drinking cup after cup of steaming coffee, which never fazed her immense exhaustion.

A woolen sweater in summer yet, and the perspiration scarcely fazes him.

A thick orange rod of fire spread over the machine—then dissipated, not fazing it.

Although Jesse Pinn could hang a consoling expression on his mug as convincingly as could Sandy Kirk, he incinerated murder victims in a crematorium furnace to assist in the cover-up of capital crimes, so he was not likely to be fazed by laws restricting Lockaid ownership.