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faze

UK/feɪz/

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Australia/fæɪz/

faze verb: to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.

Verb

faze (third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)

  1. (informal, transitive) 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.1965, Catullus, translated by Barriss Mills, The Carmina of Catullus: A Verse Translation, [West Lafayette, Ind.]: Purdue University Studies, →OCLC, carminum 42, page 71

faze meaning in Tamil

faze in Tamil

தொந்தரவு

Examples of faze in a sentence

  • In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you1978, “Living in a Dream”, in On the Edge, performed by Sea Level:
  • Some individuals "can't hold their liquor" and become thoroughly intoxicated on small amounts of alcohol which would not faze most social drinkers.1990, “Assessment”, in Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems: Report of a Study by a Committee of the Institute of...
  • [Gareth] Southgate should be absolutely clear now that [Jordan] Pickford is not fazed by the big occasion but, on the flip-side, he might not be too thrilled his goalkeeper was involved so much.2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian, London, archived...

Forms of faze

third-person singular presentfazes
present participlefazing
past participlefazed
pastfazed
alternative formphase
alternative formfeaze

Origin of faze

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.

Words formed from faze

Words that rhyme with faze

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Questions about faze

What does faze mean?
Faze means to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.
What is faze in Tamil?
Faze in Tamil is தொந்தரவு. See Faze meaning in Tamil.
How do you use faze in a sentence?
In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you
What part of speech is faze?
Faze is a verb.
How do you pronounce faze?
Faze is pronounced /feɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of faze?
The past tense of faze is fazed.

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