faze
pronunciation
How to pronounce faze in British English:
UK [feɪz]
How to pronounce faze in American English:
US [feɪz]
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- Verb:
- disturb the composure of
Word Origin
- faze
- faze: [19] Faze ‘disconcert’ is now mainly restricted to American English, but in fact it has an extensive prehistory stretching back to Anglo-Saxon times. It is a variant of feeze, a verb meaning ‘drive away’ or ‘alarm’ as well as ‘disconcert’ which survives in American English and in some British dialects, and which comes from Old English fēsian ‘drive away’.
- faze (v.)
- 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," Norwegian föysa). Related: Fazed; fazing. Bartlett (1848) has it as to be in a feeze "in a state of excitement." There also is a nautical verb feaze "to unravel" (a rope), from 1560s.
Example
- 1. The worst results cannot faze him .
- 2. No matter what happens or comes up , you should act like it doesn 't faze you .
- 3. Still , this time , the needle prodding didn 't even faze me .
- 4. That does not seem to faze investors , who responded by sending stocks sharply higher as news of the deal emerged .
- 5. You can argue whether khtml was the right decision - go ahead , after 10 years it doesn 't faze me anymore .