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Definition of faze in English: fazeverb feɪzfeɪz [with object]informal Disturb or disconcert (someone) she was not fazed by his show of anger Example sentencesExamples - This is another reason my new duties have not fazed me.
- But if it didn't work out, I just don't think that would faze me too much.
- That kind of experience means that, later in your career, very little fazes you.
- The way the Portuguese starlet is going, you cannot imagine anything fazing him.
- I, on the other hand, am constantly dumping and getting dumped, and none of it seems to faze me.
- If I had lost everything I would have started again and that never fazed me.
- Nothing ever fazes her and she'd be a fantastic mom if she weren't totally opposed to the idea.
- Midway through he took a crisp right hook, which barely fazed him.
- It wasn't just the size of the Celtic support that fazed him, apparently, but also their expectation levels.
- If you start thinking about it too much it can faze you.
- There were people dancing and bumping into you and it didn't even faze you.
- Even the dominance of his competitors does not appear to faze him.
- But nothing fazes Richard, so he'll be up for it.
- The task ahead is formidable but unlikely to faze her.
- It doesn't faze her that many times her fellow riders are one-third her age.
- It is an odd situation but I'm sure he will want to perform on that stage and he is such a great professional that things are unlikely to faze him.
- He says the amount doesn't faze him at all, although he admits the investment is reaching ‘a farcical level’.
- I pretend that nothing fazes me and I outrightly dismiss those things I cannot understand.
- She's been on the stage since the age of three so nothing fazes her at all.
- The trick is that Juan graduated from a hard school and nothing fazes him.
Synonyms amaze, astonish, dumbfound, stagger, surprise, startle, stun, stupefy, daze, nonplus
Usage Faze has no connection with the word phase and should not be spelled with a ph-, although this is a common error: almost a quarter of citations for the word in the Oxford English Corpus are for the incorrect spelling Origin Mid 19th century (originally US): variant of dialect feeze 'drive or frighten off', from Old English fēsian, of unknown origin. This informal word meaning ‘disturb, disconcert’ was originally US, a variant of dialect feeze ‘drive or frighten off’, from Old English fēsian.
Rhymes ablaze, amaze, appraise, baize, Blaise, blaze, braise, broderie anglaise, chaise, craze, daze, écossaise, erase, gaze, glaze, graze, Hayes, Hays, haze, laze, liaise, lyonnaise, maize, malaise, Marseillaise, mayonnaise, Mays, maze, phase, phrase, polonaise, praise, prase, raise, raze, upraise Definition of faze in US English: fazeverbfeɪzfāz [with object]informal Disturb or disconcert (someone) she was not fazed by his show of anger Example sentencesExamples - If I had lost everything I would have started again and that never fazed me.
- Nothing ever fazes her and she'd be a fantastic mom if she weren't totally opposed to the idea.
- Even the dominance of his competitors does not appear to faze him.
- This is another reason my new duties have not fazed me.
- But nothing fazes Richard, so he'll be up for it.
- Midway through he took a crisp right hook, which barely fazed him.
- That kind of experience means that, later in your career, very little fazes you.
- The way the Portuguese starlet is going, you cannot imagine anything fazing him.
- The task ahead is formidable but unlikely to faze her.
- It doesn't faze her that many times her fellow riders are one-third her age.
- There were people dancing and bumping into you and it didn't even faze you.
- The trick is that Juan graduated from a hard school and nothing fazes him.
- But if it didn't work out, I just don't think that would faze me too much.
- It is an odd situation but I'm sure he will want to perform on that stage and he is such a great professional that things are unlikely to faze him.
- I pretend that nothing fazes me and I outrightly dismiss those things I cannot understand.
- If you start thinking about it too much it can faze you.
- I, on the other hand, am constantly dumping and getting dumped, and none of it seems to faze me.
- It wasn't just the size of the Celtic support that fazed him, apparently, but also their expectation levels.
- She's been on the stage since the age of three so nothing fazes her at all.
- He says the amount doesn't faze him at all, although he admits the investment is reaching ‘a farcical level’.
Synonyms amaze, astonish, dumbfound, stagger, surprise, startle, stun, stupefy, daze, nonplus
Usage Faze has no connection with the word phase and should not be spelled with a ph-, although this is a common error: almost a quarter of citations for the word in the Oxford English Corpus are for the incorrect spelling Origin Mid 19th century (originally US): variant of dialect feeze ‘drive or frighten off’, from Old English fēsian, of unknown origin. |