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phaze

phaze is the obsolete form of faze.

Meaning of faze

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.

Forms of phaze

third-person singular presentphazes
present participlephazing
past participlephazed
pastphazed

Questions about phaze

What is phaze the obsolete form of?
Phaze is the obsolete form of faze.

Words near phaze in the dictionary

  1. Phayao
  2. Phayeng
  3. Phazania
  4. Phazanian
  5. Phazanians
  6. phaze
  7. Phaëthon
  8. Phaëthontean
  9. Phaëthontiad
  10. Phaëthontiads
  11. Phaëton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phaze (page history and authors); faze (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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